[PATCH] Spec update & schemas for Introspection XML format

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Fri Dec 30 07:49:03 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:51 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The DBus spec still says 
>  
>   "A more formal DTD and spec needs writing, but here are some quick notes." 
> 
> David Wheeler previously contributed a DTD, however, DTDs are a very
> limited format not able to express all the finer points of the data
> format used for introspection data. Thus I am attaching a patch which
> provides a W3C schema, and Relax NG schema (both XML & compact form).
> The patch also modifies the spec to remove the outdated note above,
> and instead link to the available DTD & schemas. 
> 

Thanks, this seems like a good update. I don't know any of these formats
so if you want to commit we'll take your word for it ;-)

Maybe we should designate one of them the "official" schema? It seems
inevitable that the set of valid documents is slightly different around
the edges for the different kinds of schema, no?

Havoc




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