From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about XML files used in portage
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:21:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509222021.29883.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4332D867.6080403@gentoo.org>
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On Thursday 22 September 2005 18:14, Grobian wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> >> AFAIK "CDATA" will be satisfied by one single space as well...
> >
> > One of the drawbacks of DTD's. In general schema's are better in
> > specifying an xml format, as they allow restrictions on CDATA, and more
> > freedom in other areas (like true order independence).
>
> Is there a reason why there's only a (legacy) DTD and not an XSD?
One reason is that there still is no real agreement on what schema to support.
Also when I wrote those I was more at home with DTD's than with WXS or
Relaxng, and xmllint (part of libxml2) did not support WXS validation.
I'll look into creating a WXS version.
Paul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-22 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-21 12:28 [gentoo-dev] Questions about XML files used in portage Albert Hopkins
2005-09-21 13:21 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-21 13:34 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-09-21 14:18 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-21 14:34 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-09-21 15:15 ` Albert Hopkins
2005-09-21 14:07 ` Albert Hopkins
2005-09-21 14:24 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-21 21:17 ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-22 8:49 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-09-22 16:14 ` Grobian
2005-09-22 18:21 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2005-09-23 16:41 ` Grobian
2005-09-23 19:43 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-09-27 8:09 ` Petteri Räty
2005-09-27 10:26 ` Paul de Vrieze
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