Re: [Boost-testing] XML validation not possible???

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-17 06:36:59

Jim Douglas writes:
> Stefan Slapeta wrote:
>> General question: wouldn't it make sense to move the schema to a web 
>> address and let the markup file refer to it? This would make it possible 
>> to use (more common) XML validators that don't accept a separate schema 
>> file (W3C's for instance).
>
> Or maybe we could locate a suitable XML editor/verification package that 
> we can each run locally. A very quick google reveals that there are 
> quite a few freebie packages out there. Explicit-failures-markup.xml is 
> fast becoming a bit of a dinosaur and IMHO anything we can do to make 
> the editing easier would help.

Theoretically, we could split it by the library. That would also
reduce the impact of erroneous checkins (only invalid parts of the
markup would be ignored, as opposite to the whole thing).

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering