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 namesclass="btn-group"orclass="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 attributeextension=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 supporttype="modal_article"or from enum (using xsd union)
Plugins only
- in
<file plugin="weblinks">weblinks.php</file>
Template only
- In
<extension>attribute valuemethod=""is now optionnal - In
<extension>addattribute valueclient="" - add
<languages></languages>
These files will be hopefully soon merged into Joomla CMS (GitHub project) and officialy supported by #Joomla
