A draft for a standard for desktop configuration

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 12 September 2005 23:55, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:26:38PM +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Comments for section 5.7:
> >
> > 1) The schema definition misses support for defining enumerations as
> > type.
> >
> > Suggest to add:
> >
> > <!ELEMENT enum (choice*)>
> > <!ATTLIST enum name CDATA #REQUIRED>
> > <!ELEMENT choice (description*)>
> > <!ATTLIST choice value CDATA #REQUIRED>
> >
> > name attribute of an enum can be referred to in the name attribute of a
> > type.
> >
> > The enum element can be a child of the node element so that a single enum
> > can be used for multiple schema.
> >
> > 2) It's unclear what the item attribute of the schema element is for.
>
>   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) ?

For reference the XML XSD Schema for the schemas that we use with KConfigXT in 
KDE.

Cheers,
Waldo
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