Re: questions about gconf future
Mark Johnson <[email protected]>
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Marcin Antczak wrote: > I have some questions about GConf future plans. > > 2. Are there plans to change current schema structure? And for example > to use standard XMLSchema structures? > Expecially I think about this problem: > > Currently in GConf we can use some limited types of data in keys. > Allowed values are: string, int, bool, float, list, pair. > And - maybe I'm wrong, but I really cannot see anything like this - > there is no way to validate and describe what exactly is allowed to > write in some keys. If you do plan to go to XML schemas, _please_ consider implementing them via RELAX-NG[1], rather than via W3C XMLSchema. RELAX-NG supports datatypes, but is an order of magnitude easier to deal with. A much better design, IMO, and quickly becoming the de facto schema standard. My $0.02... Thanks, Mark [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Mark Johnson <[email protected]> Red Hat Documentation Group <http://www.redhat.com> Tel: 919.754.4151 Fax: 919.754.3708 GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120 568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242