Identify and override conflicting rules

Development
1

I have a style guide requirement that says no abbreviations should be used for example “cont.” should be “continued”
example text: “After a brief interruption, the lecturer cont. explaining the complex theorem to the students.”
Basic Rule:

    <rule id="SPELL_OUT_CONTINUED" name="Spell Out 'Continued'">
        <pattern>          
                <token>cont.</token>          
        </pattern>
        <message>Always spell out 'continued' instead of using 'cont.'.</message>
    </rule>

When I try to run the rule I believe it conflicts with the existing xml rule “UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START”. Because my rule doesn’t run and I get a result:

Issue: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START - This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter.
Context: … brief interruption, the lecturer cont. explaining the complex theorem to the students.

  1. Is there any way to identify if a rule conflicts with existing rules?
  2. Is there a way to force custom rules to execute or take priority regardless of if it conflicts with another rule?

I quickly tried http://localhost:8081?language=es&disabled=UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START’ but it didn’t seem to work. Maybe I did something wrong, and this doesn’t feel like the right solution

2

Could you try if this works?

<pattern>          
    <token>cont</token>     
    <token>.</token>    
</pattern>

cont. is two tokens for LT, so your original rule would never match.

3

Thank you, Daniel that worked, and now I think I have a better understanding for the LTs tokenization and reg ex processing. I still have a long way to go!