Re: DTD
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig |
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| Organization | Geek Central |
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 15:01:15 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> This reflects the relatively light weight of markup needed to
> describe the application data. It's basically a set of containers, so
> all it needs is the names: the content is just strings.
Not for things like
<!ELEMENT int (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT double (#PCDATA)>
The content for these is *not* “just strings”.
> A DTD is just a spec. Its principal use is to
> guarantee that the files which claim to conform to it really do
> (validation).
Given that it will accept files that are not valid Fontconfig
configurations, the validation function seems useless.
> In either case, hardly anyone nowadays actually codes a DTD or Schema
> by hand; most are machine-generated from a better and more
> comprehensive language like Relax-NG or ODD.
Could you more accurately specify the Fontconfig config syntax in one of
these?
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