feat: hide errors when they arise from government schema being rubbish

Author: JasonWarrenUK

renderer.js

@@ -56,10 +56,33 @@ ipcRenderer.on("xml-validation-errors", (event, results) => {
   const list = document.createElement("ul");
   div.appendChild(list);
 
+  // TODO: this is janky af
+  let listCount = 0;
+  let skipNext = false;
+
   results.errors.forEach((error) => {
-    const item = document.createElement("li");
-    item.textContent = error;
-    list.appendChild(item);
+    if (error.trim() != "^") {
+      switch (skipNext) {
+        case true:
+          skipNext = false;
+          listCount = 0;
+          break;
+        case false:
+          listCount++;
+          if (error.includes("is not absolute")) {
+            skipNext = true;
+          } else {
+            const item = document.createElement("li");
+            item.textContent = `${error.type}: ${error}`;
+            if (listCount % 2 === 0) {
+              item.style.fontStyle = "italic";
+              item.style.listStyle = "none";
+            }
+            list.appendChild(item);
+          }
+          break;
+      }
+    }
   });
 
   logToMain("xml validation completed");

xmlValidator.js

@@ -9,13 +9,25 @@ const { xml, xsd } = workerData;
 
 try {
   let result = xmllint.validateXML({ xml, schema: xsd });
-  log.info("result in worker ", result);
+
+  log.info("Validation Results");
+  if (result.errors && result.errors.length > 0) {
+    log.error("Validation errors occurred");
+    log.error(result.errors);
+  } else {
+    log.info("Validation successful");
+    log.info(result);
+  }
 
   parentPort.postMessage({
     valid: !result.errors || result.errors.length === 0,
     errors: result.errors,
   });
+
   log.info("error not occuring in post messages");
 } catch (error) {
-  parentPort.postMessage({ valid: false, errors: [error.message] });
+  parentPort.postMessage({
+    valid: false,
+    errors: [error.message],
+  });
 }