xml schema instead of DTD?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.11.12 22:06:12 +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote:

> as i said some time ago, i am reworking the publications page
> (publish.html) on the website - besides updating the content i wrote an
> xsl stylesheet and some xml files for generating the page. i was
> wondering whether i can use xml schema, instead of DTD for defining the
> rules how the xml entries of the publications have to look like.

At the moment the only XML file in the www tree which has an DTD is
events.dtd, and I must admit that the main reason I made that one was to
make Emacs handle tag completion/insertion :-).  Therefor I don't think
it critical that the new files has DTD/Schema, but of course it would be
nice to have the possibility to validate the XML file(s) somehow.

Last time I checkked (some time ago) there didn't exist any tool that
could validate an XML file againts a schema, which kind of make Schema's
more or less useless until such a tool exist IMO.

Also I haven't seen any Emacs editor modes that can use schemas, only
DTD's...

If you make a valid schema for the new page then I don't mind seeing it
committed, but I don't think it's worth spending too much time on.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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