Re: [nbdev] Relax NG plugins

[Ross Lamont <rl...@componentcorp.com>]

> On 17 Jun 2017, at 5:33 am, Jan Tosovsky <j....@email.cz> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-06-15 Ross Lamont wrote:
>> 
>> As regards Relax NG validation, it looks like my plans will have to
>> change significantly.  There are 2 problems:
>> - Relax NG instance documents do not have any means of identifying the
>> schema, in the way that XML Schema or DTD do.  The solution to this is
>> to use xml-model processing instruction and a few other ideas I have.
> 
> While xml-model is non-normative 'Working Group Note' (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-model/), it is IMHO better than proprietary ways used by some XML editors, e.g.

True, but it is also a confirmed ISO standard (ISO/IEC 19757-11:2011).  I must admit I am mystified as to how ISO and W3 work together and what it means when one makes it a standard and the other doesn’t.

> 
> <?oxygen RNGSchema="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rng" type="xml"?>
> 
>> This leads us to the next problem:
>> - Validation in Netbeans is very out of date.  There is no support for
>> xml-model and in fact it is pretty hard wired to only do basic
>> validation via the SAX validation flags (not using more up to date
>> setSchema etc).  So there’ll be a bit of work to get that going.
> 
> Thanks for sharing!
> 
>> I will likely start a new nbdev thread about updating general
>> validation support in Netbeans in the next few days.  Keep an eye out
>> for it…
> 
> I will :-) 
> 
> I've already noticed some related traffic in https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@netbeans.apache.org
> 
> I really appreciate your effort in this field.
> 
> Thanks for that,
> 
> Jan
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