Features

Configure

Click this and a dialog box comes up with three tabs:

Reference lets you select which attribute names or types are used for references

Target lets you select which attribute names or types are used for identifiers

Configure lets you configure the XML or SGML DTD and Catalog to use.


References

Select one or more files, click this button and then select from one of the following options on the popup menu.

Show All - for each distinct reference value. Click on a reference to see which file the reference appeared in and the XPath of each reference.

Show Duplicates - for each distinct reference value where the reference occurs more than once within the same file. Click on a reference to see the files that the reference appeared in and the XPath of each reference.

Show Duplicates in Files - for each distinct reference value where the reference occurs more than once in the selected files. Click on a reference to see the files that the reference appeared in and the XPath of each reference.

Show Unmatched - for each distinct reference value where the reference does not seem to have a matching identifier in the same file. Click on a reference to see the files that the reference appeared in and the XPath of each reference.

Show Unmatched in Files - for each distinct reference value where the reference does not seem to have a matching identifier in any of the currently selected file. Click on a reference to see the files that the reference appeared in and the XPath of each reference.

Set Collection - to remember a wider range of files.

Show Unmatched in Collection - for each distinct reference value where the reference does not seem to have a matching identifier in any of the files in the collection


Identifiers

Select one or more files, click this button and then select from one of the following options on the popup menu.

Show All - for each distinct identifier value. Click on an identifier to see which file the identifier appeared in and the XPath of each reference.

Show Duplicates - for each distinct identifier value where the identifier occurs more than once within the same file. Click on an identifier to see the files that the identifier appeared in and the XPath of each identifier.

Show Duplicates in Files - for each distinct identifier value where the identifier occurs more than once in the selected files. Click on a reference to see the files that the identifier appeared in and the XPath of each identifier.

Show Unmatched - for each distinct identifier value where the identifier does not seem to have a matching reference in the same file. Click on an identifier to see the files that the identifier appeared in and the XPath of each identifier.

Show Unmatched in Files - for each distinct identifier value where the identifier does not seem to have a matching reference in any of the currently selected file. Click on an identifier to see the files that the identifier appeared in and the XPath of each identifier.

Set Collection - to remember a wider range of files.

Show Unmatched in Collection - for each distinct identifier value where the identifier does not seem to have a matching reference in any of the files in the collection.

 

Is this going anywhere?

The Link Detective lets you look through references and identifiers in documents to check links.

Works with document-unique identifiers, globally-unique identifiers and non-unique identifiers.

Check your links fast!

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Other features

  • DTD IDs and IDREF types supported (XML Schemas PSVI not supported).
  • XHTML internal reference syntax (#) supported (Full URIs not supported).
  • Convenient tabbed browser interface.
  • Bookmark frequent locations.
  • Help tab.
  • Fast switching to other Topologi utilities.
  • SGML support.

Who uses this and why?

  • Project managers: checking globally unique IDs when adding new documents.
  • Markup staff: adding references.
  • XHTML website owners: checking links.
  • XSLT programmers: checking the results of transformations or browsing document sets prior to transformation.


Requirements

  • Windows XP, 2000, NT.
  • 128 Meg RAM.
  • Recent Java (JRE 1.4.2, JRE 1.5)