set parservalidate

This command alters the behavior of the parser used when an edit -cc is performed. This can be helpful when loading certain classes of files which are “out of balance”.

By default, all Arbortext Editor documents are normalized (that is, balanced). This means that every start tag has an end tag, no matter whether the DTD declares them as being optional or not. When you use Arbortext Editor to open a document that was authored outside of Arbortext Editor, Arbortext Editor will attempt to normalize the document by adding start and/or end tags. This is the behavior indicative of the parservalidate option being on. In some cases, these added tags may be unwanted, as the algorithm that adds them cannot always anticipate the author's original intent or compensate for a document that is well out of context. When the addition of start and end tags makes a document harder to work with (rather than easier), close the document (without saving changes), turn the parservalidate option off, and reload the document.

Be aware that the parservalidate option affects the document load process. It does not affect the editing or saving of a loaded document.

If you load a document with the parservalidate option off, it is likely that the next Check Completeness operation will find several problems. This is because Arbortext Editor is expecting a balanced document, and with parservalidate off, the document was not balanced when it was opened.