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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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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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  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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