By default, TAPValidator starts in graphical mode.
When first run, it is necessary to modify the configuration settings. See Configuration.
Then, the usual operation would be to do several queries on the node (network/plugin) and, if any errors occur, modify node software code. Iterate until documents are validating without errors.
Main window
Most of the time you will be using the main window.
It has several important areas:
This list displays a list of Restrictables keywords supported by the node.
Double-click on a line will add corresponding keyword to the end of query string.
Keywords highlighted gray are the non-standard keywords, missing from the official keywords dictionary.
This panel holds the VAMDC-XSAMS document, opened from file, url or returned by node.
Double-click on a line centers on it.
Files and URLs to XSAMS files can be dropped to that field, it enables opening local files or remote documents by URL.
Located blocks and search results are highlighted by gray color, validation errors are highlighted with red.
Block locator panel functions
Locator panel allows quick browsing through document sections.
Active section indicates that this was the last read/last seeked section.
Activate any inactive section to jump to current block index of that type.
Block index selector.
Allows to jump to a block with selected number in order.
Jump to next block button
Pressing that button would move you to the next block of that type starting from the current position in VAMDC-XSAMS document. If no blocks of this type are present latter in document, you will be directed to the first block of that type.
Displays some document metrics, or in case of error occured, error description.
For each of the validation errors displays position in document and error description.
Double-click on any line will scroll XSAMS document to selected error and highlight element that contains error. Error text and block contents are copied to clipboard at that time.