Re: Is it right for me help request

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Andy J wrote:

> HI, all. . .  I just downloaded and installed Forrest yesterday to try
> to determine if it would work in my case.  So I spent all day with it
> and was pretty happy and optimistic about the prospects.  It will be
> deployed on a SunOne java server so using the webapp-war option
> bundled up my webapp and that part went great.  I'm finally starting
> to grok the concepts and successfully put some sdocbook source in
> which transformed perfectly, very slick.
>
> I'm still trying to figure out if it will work in my case and was
> hoping someone could pipe in about two questions.
>
> 1.  I know the surest way to determine this is to try it - but I
> didn't get that far and someone might know: will Forrest validate
> against an XML Schema schema?  I have a lot invested in an existing
> schema and don't want to spend more time morphing it to RNG or DTD.
> So this is sort of a showstopper (or starter) issue.
>

We generally have forrest do minimal validation (just to make sure it can
handle the input files).  You should do editing and validation with a
seperate tool designed to do that to get the best error messages possible.

Forrest's validation stages are done via Ant, so you can modify it to
support whatever type of validation you need.  You could also add a Ant
"wrapper" script which does your own validation stages first and then
invokes the main forrest targets.  Then you wouldn't have to modify
forrest itself.

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Re: Is it right for me help request

[Andy J <se...@gmail.com>]

I do validation w/ant as well as via a custom class so it looks like
I'm covered on that part anyhow.  Thanks!

- Andy


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:49:00 -0500 (EST), Dave Brondsema
<da...@brondsema.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Andy J wrote:
> 
> > HI, all. . .  I just downloaded and installed Forrest yesterday to try
> > to determine if it would work in my case.  So I spent all day with it
> > and was pretty happy and optimistic about the prospects.  It will be
> > deployed on a SunOne java server so using the webapp-war option
> > bundled up my webapp and that part went great.  I'm finally starting
> > to grok the concepts and successfully put some sdocbook source in
> > which transformed perfectly, very slick.
> >
> > I'm still trying to figure out if it will work in my case and was
> > hoping someone could pipe in about two questions.
> >
> > 1.  I know the surest way to determine this is to try it - but I
> > didn't get that far and someone might know: will Forrest validate
> > against an XML Schema schema?  I have a lot invested in an existing
> > schema and don't want to spend more time morphing it to RNG or DTD.
> > So this is sort of a showstopper (or starter) issue.
> >
> 
> We generally have forrest do minimal validation (just to make sure it can
> handle the input files).  You should do editing and validation with a
> seperate tool designed to do that to get the best error messages possible.
> 
> Forrest's validation stages are done via Ant, so you can modify it to
> support whatever type of validation you need.  You could also add a Ant
> "wrapper" script which does your own validation stages first and then
> invokes the main forrest targets.  Then you wouldn't have to modify
> forrest itself.
> 
> --
> Dave Brondsema : dave@brondsema.net
> http://www.brondsema.net : personal
> http://www.splike.com : programming
> http://csx.calvin.edu : student org
>