node-schematron

This is an Schematron minimal syntax implementation for front- and back-end Javascript. It can be used as a NodeJS dependency as well as in the browser (ie. wrapped by Webpack). It returns a JSON object with the (resolved) messages of your assertions.

To use programmatically

To use programmatically, install to your project like any other npm module: npm install node-schematron

const { Schema } = require('node-schematron');

const schema = Schema.fromString(`<schema xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron">
	<pattern>
		<rule context="thunder">
			<let name="lightning"/>
			<report test="$lightning/@foo = 'bar'">
				Skeet boop <value-of select="$lightning/@foo" />
			</report>
		</rule>
	</pattern>
</schema>`);

const results = schema.validateString(
	`<xml foo="err">
	<thunder foo="bar" />
</xml>`,
	{ debug: true }
);

// results === [
//   {
//      isReport: true,
//      context: <thunder foo="bar" />,
//      message: '\n\t\t\t\tSkeet boop bar\n\t\t\t'
//   }
// ]

To use from command line

To use as a command in your terminal, install globally like: npm install -g node-schematron. Alternatively, you can use npx to run it.

The node-schematron command has two parameters, the last one of which is optional:

1. schematronLocation, required, an absolute path or relative reference to your schematron XML. For example my-schema.sch.
2. globPattern, optional, a globbing pattern for documents. For example *.{xml,dita} (all .xml and .dita files). Defaults to *.xml (all .xml files in the current working directory).

/Users/Wybe/Docs/schematron-test:
  node-schematron my-schema.sch
  # Gives the results for all "*.xml" files in this directory

/Users/Wybe/Docs/schematron-test:
  node-schematron my-schema "docs/**/*.xml"
  # Gives the results for all "*.xml" files in the docs/ directory and all subdirectories

Besides that you can give it a fair amount of options:

Long name	Short	Description
--reporters	-r	The reporter(s) to use. Zero or many of npm or xunit, space separated.
--ok	-o	Do not exit process with an error code if at least one document fails a schematron assertion.
--debug	-D	Display extra stack trace information in case of XPath errors
--files	-f	A list of files, in case you can't use the globbing parameter.
--batch	-b	The number of documents to handle before opening the next child process. Defaults to 5000.
--phase	-p	The schematron phase to run. Defaults to #DEFAULT (which means the @defaultPhase value or #ALL.
--log-level	-l	The amount of stuff to log. Only used if -r includes npm. Value must be one of silly, info, report, pass, assert, fail, fileError or error. Defaults to info.

/Users/Wybe/Docs/schematron-test:
  node-schematron my-schema.sch "**/*.xml" --phase publication --log-level fail
  # Validates the "publication" phase and logs only the paths of documents that fail

/Users/Wybe/Docs/schematron-test:
  node-schematron my-schema.sch "**/*.xml" -r xunit > test-reports/test-report.xml
  # Validates the "publication" phase and writes an XUnit XML report to file

Custom functions

XSLT functions (<xsl:function>) are not supported. There is a feature branch (xslt-functions) with a naive implementation that unfortunately got stuck. More about that problem in this closing comment in a related ticket.

To define custom XPath functions via Javascript, import registerCustomXPathFunction:

const { registerCustomXPathFunction } = require('node-schematron');

registerCustomXPathFunction(
	{
		localName: 'is-foo',
		namespaceURI: 'http://example.com'
	},
	['xs:string?'],
	'xs:boolean',
	(domFacade, input) => input === 'foo'
);

The registerCustomXPathFunction is an alias for the same function in fontoxpath. See the fontoxpath "global functions" documentation for more information.

Compliance

As for features, check out the unit tests in test/. I've mirrored them to the text of ISO/IEC 19757-3 2016 in order to clearly assert how far node-schematron is up to spec. I've also noticed there's different ways you can read that text, so please file an issue if you feel node-schematron behaves in a non-standard or buggy way.

Section	Thing	Status
5.4.1	<active />	Tests OK
5.4.1	<active />	Tests OK
5.4.2	<assert />	Tests OK
5.4.3	<extends />	Not on roadmap
5.4.4	<include />	Not on roadmap
5.4.5	<let />	Tests OK
5.4.6	<name />	Tests OK
5.4.7	<ns />	Experimental
5.4.8	<param />	Tests OK
5.4.9	<pattern />	Tests OK
5.4.10	<phase />	Tests OK
5.4.11	<report />	Tests OK
5.4.12	<rule />	Tests OK
5.4.13	<schema />	Tests OK
5.4.14	<value-of />	Tests OK

Not supported attributes are @abstract, @diagnostics, @icon, @see, @fpi, @flag, @role and @subject.

Support

• Every pull request will be considered and responded to.
• The schematron query language is XPath 3.1, implemented by fontoxpath. It is not yet feature complete.

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Wybe Minnebo

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