On Monday 06 March 2006 12:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Well, if we're having a list of valid remote-id type values in a file
> somewhere, there's at least a vague argument that said file should be
> XML. And since XML is supposedly compatible, said file should be
> magically linked to the regular metadata DTD.
>
> So we'd have something like:
>
> <remote-id-values>
>     <value name="sourceforge" format="string">
>         The project's sourceforge project ID (e.g. 'hilite')
>     </value>
>     <value name="vim" format="integer">
>         The script's vim.org script ID (e.g. '123')
>     </value>
> </remote-id-values>

Correct me if I'm wrong but.. it seems you're describing XML Schema[1]?  Using 
XML to define the value types that can exist in another XML file would be XML 
Schema.

I'm going under that this is in reference to:

"This GLEP does not specify a complete list of legal values
for ``type`` -- developers should email the ``gentoo-dev`` mailing list
before using a new ``type`` value."

and if not please specify which part of the GLEP this references to.

Chris White

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/