Re: Relax NG plugins

> I will likely start a new nbdev thread about updating general validation =
support in Netbeans in the next few days.  Keep an eye out for it=E2=80=A6

Please start using [email protected] , the code is
being donated to Apache any day now.

--emi


On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Ross Lamont <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> As regards Relax NG validation, it looks like my plans will have to chang=
e significantly.  There are 2 problems:
>  - Relax NG instance documents do not have any means of identifying the s=
chema, in the way that XML Schema or DTD do.  The solution to this is to us=
e xml-model processing instruction and a few other ideas I have.  This lead=
s us to the next problem:
>  - Validation in Netbeans is very out of date.  There is no support for x=
ml-model and in fact it is pretty hard wired to only do basic validation vi=
a the SAX validation flags (not using more up to date setSchema etc).  So t=
here=E2=80=99ll be a bit of work to get that going.
>
> I will likely start a new nbdev thread about updating general validation =
support in Netbeans in the next few days.  Keep an eye out for it=E2=80=A6
>
> Cheers
> Ross
>
>> On 10 May 2017, at 7:35 am, Jan Tosovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-11-29 Ross Lamont wrote:
>>>
>>> I am thinking of writing a bunch of Relax NG plugins, principally to
>>> support validation, but also probably some editor support as well. The
>>> only existing plugin is the old one from NB 6.9, but I can=E2=80=99t fi=
nd the
>>> codebase for that one.
>>>
>>
>> I am also interested in RNG validation. Have you made any progress?
>>
>> That old plugin seems to use JING validator internally.
>>
>> To my surprise that validator is nowadays already shipped with Netbeans.=
 Can anybody clarify what this dependency is used for? (located in NetBeans=
 8.2\ide\modules\ext\jing.jar )
>>
>> I hope NB uses some kind of pluggable validation API which could be some=
how extended via appropriate configuration. Now when jing.jar is already on=
 classpath, I believe required changes won't be as complex as expected init=
ially.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> PS: I am willing to help with this project.
>>
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