Hi Dave, ... Sorry but I cannot follow you. Can you please expand a little? My question is if we should focus on patterns only or not. A schema is formed from...
... At some point your output, if XML will begin to look like the rng schema, perhaps with a variant syntax. If you constrained the schema author in some way,...
... hard bit. Right. That's why I was hoping some user would point to an existing example of documentation produced for DTDs or XML Schema and say, do it like...
... http://www.tei-c.org/P5/Guidelines/REFTAG.html do it like that -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury...
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Hi Dave, A schema documentation tool should present schema information and use the annotations to show additional developer to user information. The main idea...
Thanks. And (aside from the ugly but maybe useful first page) wow. This has the look of something produced automatically. Do you happen to have a link to the...
All the examples so far, including this one, are of documentation aimed at XML authors. Here's an entirely different take, aimed at schema authors (?): ...
Thanks, Dave. Now we're getting down to it. So far we've identified three kinds of documentation that can be automatically generated from a schema and have...
... In WXS, the combination of a child element's name and its parent's type determines the child's type uniquely. In RNG there are no guarantees. -- John...
For XML Schema the context is in general the path up to the root, as the root must be either a typed element or a global element or the path up to the first...
... Yes, George and John, I know that. My suggestion to use paths to discriminate between elements with the same name was based on common use cases, not...
Folks, This mailing list now has 71 members. Please mention this ML when you write blog entries about RELAX NG. Cheers, -- MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)...
... I'd hope that if I see the element foobar, it has a single semantic. It may have 4 different content models, but I wouldn't think much of the schema author...
Hi folks, as you know, RELAX NG standard doesn't define mechanism for specifying which schema should be used to validate XML document. Many RELAX NG aware...
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Jul 2, 2005 5:22 pm
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Hi, ... This comes back at regular intervals. I think the best way to make it happen is to just do it :) Write a document describing how it operates, put it up...
... While this may be convenient, I suggest that it may cause problems. At least in the environment I work in, it is quite common to validate a set of...
No offense to any present company, but I have always felt that editors that add such processing instructions just don't know any better. ;-} - It is too...
... Primary motivation (although not stated clearly) for my proposal was not validation, but guided editing of XML document. Describing complex validation is...
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Jul 2, 2005 9:15 pm
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... I don't want defend them, but both products that I mentioned also provide other more flexible and indirect mechanism for associating schemas to documents...
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Jul 2, 2005 9:32 pm
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... But if there is a "standard" there will be pressure to use it for everything conceivable, whether it is appropriate or not. ... That doesn't mean it should...
Folks, Although I am still skeptical, I would like to introduce a strawman proposal. Please feel free to shoot it down or encourage standardization. ...
Hi everybody, Firt I would like to clarify that NRL and now NVDL do not address the problem of schema association, maybe that was confused with locating rules...
... Section 3. Proposed simplification. If an application uses the oasis-schema processing instructions, it may select a subset of the modes specified. An...
... Murata-san, I like your proposal. I have just two comments. Your proposal states that this PI is hint for validator. I would like to extend this also for...
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... If you fetch RNC schema (plain text file) from local filesystem, you don't know in which encoding it is (you neither have an XML declaration with encoding...
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... +1. Please no more processing instructions! I'm an elements, attributes and text person. I build everything I can with those three and only step outside it...
... Shouldn't an encoding header be added to RNC document similar to @charset in CSS? -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/...
... I think that in the absence of the feature you describe below, a PI is the better way to go. But I'd be grateful if we could avoid the debate entirely :) ...