Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:08:16 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403291205070.25730@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040328094048.GA40406@phantom.cris.net> References: <20040328094048.GA40406@phantom.cris.net>
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > At this point I would like to start some kind of discussion and listen for > your ideas which features you'd like to see in application which will be > handling these XMLs. > According XML structure. It should look like: > > <notes> > <section id="ID"> > <title>Section Title</title> > <desc>Multiline section description</desc> > > <entry type="(options|device|etc)" id="ID2"> > <conflicts options="ID3"/> > <depends device="ID4"/> > <lint value="1"/> > <lint exclude="yes"/> > <title>Entry title</title> > <desc>Entry description</desc> > </entry> > </section> > </notes> Please strongly consider adding an XML namespace to this; it gives some measure of version control and you can use XSLT (where possible) to migrate cleanly from one version to the next. I know this might seem less useful for a hand-maintained NOTES but getting practice in addressing some of the complaints levelled against the adoption of XML by picking the useful bits of the technology is (I think) a good idea. Cheers, -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Generalisation is never appropriate.
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