Look at pyxform validation

[MartijnR]

Does ODK Validate still look at external data nodes?

If validation is disabled in pyxform, does that only disable ODK Validate validation or also its own validation (e.g. no "name" or no "end repeat")?

[MartijnR]

ODK Validate 1.7.0 still looks inside external instances and throws an error if the instance is empty. E.g. if a calculation refers to instance('countries')/some/node it throws an error because the instance is not populated in the XForm definition (this is done when the form is loaded).

Correction: It only does this for select and select one questions that populate options from the external data. So that may actually not be so serious!

[MartijnR]

The pyxform --skip_validate option still does pyxform's own validation. It only skips ODK Validate. That's good.

[MartijnR]

check if @ references pass ODK Validate