norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2004/01/09/bourbonhttp://norman.walsh.name/2004/01/09/bourbon/comments.atom2012-02-13T05:02:29.157801ZComment 1 on /2004/01/09/bourbonhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012004-01-12T08:51:11Z2004-01-12T08:51:11ZTobi

This is great news! Putting DBX in a namespace and requiring a version attribute on the root element is a very good thing. Software will be able to find out which language the document (or fragment) is written in; a validator can for example apply a schema if it knows the language (if there were a suggestion for a schema it wouldn't have to know the language ...).

This is how it works here: (Does your feedback code somehow support code listings? In order to prevent endless lines I inserted additional newlines for now; being able to use pre would be better.)

4_ng_bourbon.dbx:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng" version="5.0">

<title>foo</title>

<simpara>bar</simpara>

</section>

in language_list.xml:

<language>

<identity> namespace-uri(/*)='http://docbook.org/docbook-ng' and /*/@version='5.0' </identity>

<local-schema> /home/tobi/bulk/xml/schemas/docbook/4_ng/bourbon/docbook.rng </local-schema>

</language>

validation:

tobi ~/data/run/xval/_tests $ xval 4_ng_bourbon.dbx

[xval] validating against /home/tobi/bulk/xml/schemas/docbook/4_ng/bourbon/docbook.rng

[xval] jing:

[xval] xmllint:

4_ng_bourbon.dbx validates

Tobi

P.S. Link "DocBook NG" http://norman.walsh.name/2004/01/09/http://docbook.org/docbook-ng/ should be http://docbook.org/docbook-ng/

Comment 2 on /2004/01/09/bourbonhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022004-01-15T13:11:49Z2004-01-15T13:11:49ZJirka Kosekda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I'm just curious why you used URL instead of URN for namespace indentifier. I know that technically are both versions same, but I tend to prefer URNs for namespaces as they emphasise "virtual and immaterial" matter of namespaces.