Creating a devince information file

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 12:32:17 PDT 2007


On 8/7/07, Greg Allen <GAllen at arrayinc.com> wrote:
>
> I want to create a device information file for my device. I have seen the
> HAL specification
>  on the wiki and know what information will be required.  However, how
> exactly do I create the
>  XML file itself?
>
>
>
> I could just use and editor and try to create the XML by hand, but that
> seems error prone
>  and time consuming. Is there a schema somewhere that can be used to
> validate the file?

I actually think most people write them by hand, but the DTD is in the
tarball as fdi/fdi.dtd. Here's the current version:

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=fdi/fdi.dtd

--
Dan


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