Question

I just configured Sonar to analyse my android project but realized that only the Java-files are analyzed by default.

Is there a (easy) way to include the xml-resources in the analysis?
I could not find a plugin for Sonar in their project page but maybe there’s something out there?!

Answer 1

Sonar offers a XML-Plugin:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/XML+Plugin

Any XML file can be validated with
this plugin. The plugin provides
static code analysis of XML files
within Sonar. Typical use cases are
validation of files for coding or
usability standards.

The following functionality is
provided:

XML validation
XML schema validation
Configurable rules using XPath
sizing (files, lines of code)

The XML
validation is available out-of-the
box. The configurable XPath rules
requires some knowledge of XPath.

The plugin scans the following files
by default: .xml, .xhtml. The file
extensions and the file inclusion
patterns are configurable.

The plugin imports the XML files in
Sonar, and performs the validations.
The checks are configurable in the
Sonar rules repository.