I think the "target/p2artifacts.xml" and "target/p2content.xml" files
are generated by Maven. They are well-formed XML but Eclipse's XML
validator legitimately warns that they lack grammar constraints.
Since we're not maintaining the tool that creates these files, we are
not in a position to do anything about that. Therefore, we may as
well exclude these from validation entirely. That way we can
more-clearly recognize warnings that we *can* do something about.
Eclipse's XML validator warns about missing grammar constraints in
several XML files that come from non-WALA projects. We are not in a
position to do anything about these problems.
As created by Tycho Surefire, these files are XML documents without
DTD or XML Schema declarations. The XML validator warns about this
omission. However, Surefire is not a WALA component. We are not in a
suitable position to change it to include XML schema or DTD
declarations in the XML files it generates. Better, then, to ignore
this benign problem so we can focus on warnings that we can act on
directly.
It's unclear whether the original authors of these pages intended them
to be valid or invalid. Certainly there is merit in testing against
invalid HTML, since the vast majority of real-world HTML is indeed
invalid. I'm going to assume that any errors in this collection of
test inputs are intentional, and therefore not worth reporting when
running Eclipse HTML validation.
Plugin documentation includes plenty of invalid HTML. However, we
don't maintain these files, so we are not in a position to fix them.
Better, therefore, to suppress these warnings so that we can notice
and fix other problems over which we do have control.
Eclipse validation warns about invalid HTML content in all
Maven-generated "target/site/dependency-convergence.html" files. The
warnings are legitimate: these HTML files are indeed invalid.
However, we don't maintain the tool that generates these files, so we
are not in a position to fix them. Better, therefore, to suppress
these warnings so that we can notice and fix other problems over which
we do have control.
Ben Liblit