[wpkg-users] xsd, dtd schema files?

[Jan Luehr]

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb Rainer Meier:
> Hi Jan,
>
> > Looks nice!
>
> Thanks. It's still a "fist draft" ;-)
>
> > Btw. a few things drew my attention:
> > - You defined "variable" multiple times. Maybe it might be better to
> > define these common things only one time and include 'em.
> > profilex.xsd:
>
> Well, I will check if that makes sense. I don't know if this will bring
> any noticeable benefit at the moment.
>
> > - Must a profile have at least one package? (I can think of profiles not
> > having any packages, but depending on multiple profiles)
>
> Right, I even did not think about this possibility. However in most
> cases there will be at least one package - that's why I put it like
> this. I changed it to allow 0 packages as well.
>
> > - Multiple depends-(and package) children referecing same ids are
> > possible - although this doesn't strictly lead to a broken XML-file, it
> > is propably an error. (Declare as invalid?)
>
> For WPKG it is perfectly acceptable to reference a single package
> multiple times - or even "included" through depending profiles. So no
> need to check that explicitly I think.

Sure?, I - personally - consider this as invalid:
<profile id="default">
        <package package-id="AcroRead" />
        <package package-id="AcroRead" />
</profile>

Although It can be executed, I think it's highly unlikely in anybodies 
intention. Imho it's more realistic to assume, that another package - apart 
from Acroread - ought to be deployed.

> > - You define <xsd:complexType name="variable">and <xsd:element
> > name="variable" type="variable"> but I can't find any references to them
> > within "profiles". Is this allright?
>
> No. In fact it's referenced within the "profile" element. It allows to
> specify any number of variable elements.

Sorry, I didn't noticed that.

> > Btw. ehm ... imho it's a little bit odd, that profiles, hosts and
> > packages use different XML-Files and therefore idrefs cannot be
> > validated.
> > This could by accomplished by either
> > - Patch wpkg not to panic on missing xml-files and using already loaded
> > tree data
> > - Write a simple xslt transformation for splitting and joining these
> > files.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Probably yes. As I said, it's my very first experience in XSD and it has
> been developed in quite a hurry during some night hours. So let me think
> about it and let's do one step after the other...

:-)

Thanks,
Keep smiling
yanosz