Schema Validation for Joomla 3.1 Extensions

Full support for Joomla 3.1 has been added to the project “Schema Validation for #Joomla Extensions” (GitHub), tested with all 113 manifests of Joomla 3.1.5! (components, modules, plugins and templates)

Without them, #Joomla accept any entry in manifest xml and never complains about

• Mistyping, like a valid xml but that the #Joomla installer do not understand or only partially,
• Wrong constructs, xml tag child misplaced,
• Invalid data type, like a path not being a valid path, an expected integer being a text and so on…

Joomla just silently die during install or install only partially extensions. These days are over and all developers with any decent IDE will be able to

• Validate while typing,
• Enjoy auto completion.
• Have an up to date documentation of all possibilities in #Joomla’s manifest.

What’s new

see https://github.com/cedricwalter/joomla-xsd/commit/8b315332e8c0fa515da19f15a4c547f446850024

component / module / plugins

• add in <menu> support for attribute value img="class:banners">
• add in <menu> support for attribute value view="anyString"
• add in <menu> support for attribute value alt="anyString"
• add to type="cmsVersionType" version 3.1
• add support for <menu link="option=com_finder">COM_FINDER</menu> (finder.xml)
• In <extension> attribute valuemethod="" is now optional
• add new <help key="ANY_STRING" />
• add in <field> support for attribute value first="anyNumber"
• add in <field> support for attribute value last="anyNumber"
• add in <field> support for attribute value step="anyNumber"
• add in <field> support for attribute value published="" (mod_articles_category.xml)
• add in <field> support for attribute value format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
• add in <field> support for attribute value disable="separator" (mod_login.xml)
• add in <fields> support for attribute value addfieldpath="validPath" (mod_finder.xml)
• in <field> validate css class names class="btn-group" or class="btn-group btn1 blue" orclass=""
• Allow empty without fieldset (vote.xml) <fields name="params"> </fields>
• In <authorEmail> consider N/A as a valid email
• Attribute 'label' now optional on element 'field'. <field name="spacer3" type="spacer" hr="true" />
• Support for validate <field> type="url" (sef.xml)
• in <fieldset> allow Attribute value label="" to appear in element (debug.xml)
• allow <field> to have type attribute value category (contactcreator.xml)
• allow <field> to have new attribute extension=com_* (contactcreator.xml)
• In <media> attribute destination value is now optional
• In <fieldset> add optionaladdfieldpath="" and validate that it is a valid path
• In “`<option value="" empty values are now allowed
• <updateservers> is now available in plugins manifests
• In <field> type now support type="modal_article" or from enum (using xsd union)

Plugins only

• in <file plugin="weblinks">weblinks.php</file>

Template only

• In <extension> attribute value method="" is now optionnal
• In <extension> addattribute value client=""
• add <languages></languages>

These files will be hopefully soon merged into Joomla CMS  (GitHub project) and officialy supported by #Joomla

• Joomla tracker http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=8549&tracker_item_id=30358

• GitHub issue https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/838

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