Re: Relax NG plugins

> On 17 Jun 2017, at 5:33 am, Jan Tosovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2017-06-15 Ross Lamont wrote:
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>> As regards Relax NG validation, it looks like my plans will have to
>> change significantly.  There are 2 problems:
>> - Relax NG instance documents do not have any means of identifying =
the
>> schema, in the way that XML Schema or DTD do.  The solution to this =
is
>> to use xml-model processing instruction and a few other ideas I have.
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> While xml-model is non-normative 'Working Group Note' =
(https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-model/), it is IMHO better than proprietary =
ways used by some XML editors, e.g.

True, but it is also a confirmed ISO standard (ISO/IEC 19757-11:2011).  =
I must admit I am mystified as to how ISO and W3 work together and what =
it means when one makes it a standard and the other doesn=E2=80=99t.

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> <?oxygen =
RNGSchema=3D"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rng" =
type=3D"xml"?>
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>> This leads us to the next problem:
>> - Validation in Netbeans is very out of date.  There is no support =
for
>> xml-model and in fact it is pretty hard wired to only do basic
>> validation via the SAX validation flags (not using more up to date
>> setSchema etc).  So there=E2=80=99ll be a bit of work to get that =
going.
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> Thanks for sharing!
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>> 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
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> I will :-)=20
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> I've already noticed some related traffic in =
https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]
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> I really appreciate your effort in this field.
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> Thanks for that,
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> Jan
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