A draft for a standard for desktop configuration

[Philip Van Hoof]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:21 +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 12 September 2005 23:55, 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) ?

I agree

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

I've planned converting the DTD to an XSD schema as a TODO. If somebody
is interested in assisting me with this, please contact me and/or
provide a diff (and an xsd schema file).

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