[Rpm-metadata] dtd and validation

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:56:10PM +0100, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> You mean that the w3c should update the dtd of html to feet with the
> "state of the art" of IE ?
> Internet Explorer is a recommendation of the w3c ?

  if IE was released by the W3C this might make sense. Your comparison
doesn't hold.

> The dtd should have a version and the xml files should indicate the dtd
> used (or it try to conform).

  versionning might be useful, but it's not critical.

> > That should not be too hard, sounds even a good exercise in improving
> > your XML knowledge 
> 
> Why not.
> But with which one :
> - DTD

  It's a DTD, fix the DTD, it's not that hard really.

> > (and next one is to write a Relax-NG schemas for it [1]) ;-)
> 
> Why Relax-NG ?

  Because it's simple and there is an easy tutorial that even a beginner
can follow c.f. the reference I gave !

> XSD seems fine

  you're the first one to say so. Obviously you're a newbie. Next assignment
is to read it and juge your statement again:
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
  part 2 about datatype ain't too bad though
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/

> and it's a recommendation of w3c.

  its main virtue.

Daniel

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