A draft for a standard for desktop configuration

Philip Van Hoof spam at pvanhoof.be
Fri Sep 16 13:56:48 EEST 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:55 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   It seems to me that a DTD captures only a very limited set of the
> constraints. It seems to  me that with the use of proper XML Schemas
> Datatype regexps and type can for example express in a way more compact
> way all the rules from section 5.3 and allow validation of those,
> that could be used either from a Relax-NG or an XML XSD Schemas. DTD
> expressive power is really really low and I would suggest to provide
> either an Relax-NG or a XML XSD Schema. This could be an useful exercise
> too, for example why is there no length limit for a key (think mapping
> to SQL databases VARCHAR) ?

This version might need some more tweaking and etcetera:

http://cvs.pvanhoof.be/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/desktop-config-standard/dtd/schema.xsd?rev=HEAD



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