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Re: Another LENNI Question (geek alert)
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Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:15:05 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:31:49AM +0000, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> > First possibility: [XSD, XML Schema Definition]. I believe RSS 2.0
> > supports XSD, but I'm not absolutely sure. I know 0.92 doesn't, and
> > I'm staying as far away from RDF-centric RSS 1.0 as possible. Also, I
> > think Atom can be extended to use XSD, but again, I'm not sure. Any
> > clarification is helpful.
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> I like this solution. The schema can be used not only for validation,
> but can be pulled to get the list of possible values. Quick question
> though - can't the list of allowed values be specified in the DTD, which
> we're going to maintain anyway? I guess you were refering to that in
> the parts I snipped before, saying you don't want to release a new
> version of the DTD every time we need to modify the theme list.
Right, no need to force software updates every time we add to the list.
Hopefully it'll be all back-end.
My only real concern right now would be how stable is XSD? I keep running across
people trashing it on the various blog sites. But I don't know if they're onto
something, or just being uppity. It's so hard to tell, with all the 'tude being
slung around.
> I agree - the spec should probably specify that a local cache should be
> kept, and maybe even how often updates should be checked for.
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> But I like the solution in general - a way to keep the standard list of
> options, easy to update, and easy to propagate.
Exactly. Thanks for the reality check.
BTW, I've finished the first "real" draft of the spec, and put it online,
Posting it another thread.
- Kelly
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| (...) We at Ascential are seeing our customers, and the big ecommerce standards bodies, shifting away from DTDs and towards schema definitions for XML standards. The major reasons given are that the schema definition is much more expressive than a (...) (20 years ago, 12-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
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