Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > In case anyone's curious, ZCML is Zope 3's configuration markup language,
> > and described are mostly ways to hook up Zope 3's components by
> > interface. I'm writing a Relax NG schema not just to be able to use it
> > for validation and specification, but also as a help to explore ways in
> > which ZCML could be improved for clarity and modularity.
>
> Immediate feedback without looking at the XML or the schemas, just from
> the debugger output, oyou seem to use too many attributes :-)
Yes, agreed. I'm trying to take this by small steps as it's a working
architecture, but one of my goals is to make at least human-readable
attributes text node content instead. Another goal is to try to make
overrides of existing definitions more minimal than just copying them
all and making changes. :)
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> I will make sure it's fixed in next release. Surprizing it was never
> found in previous releases or languages, I would have expected DocBook
> to have exercized that part of the code already. Maybe it's harder than
> it seems.
Thanks! If you want to use any of this stuff as test cases let me know
and I'll work it out with the Zope 3 developers. It's under a BSD-ish
license but I'm sure no one will mind allowing you to relicense this
tidbit.
> But I totally agree with you, Relax-NG is a really nice and somewhat
> intuitive language -- a challenge considering the domain !
I'm vaguely wondering if (and how) it can be used to do a data-binding
language or something along those lines. Or help informing a
structured XML editor. i.e. using the schema for more than just
validation.
I know there's a lot of work in those areas for
W3C XML Schema, and I'm wondering whether there's something inherent in
Relax NG that would make this harder, or that it's just that I haven't
found the people yet who are doing this. :)
Regards,
Martijn
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