Re: [generguide-devel] generguide config schema

[Cameron S. <ca...@sh...>]

On Monday 18 Aug 2003 10:00 am, Artur Hefczyc wrote:

> Sorry for the delay. I have visitors at home so I was not able to
> work on this during the weekend.

No problem.

>
> 1. Comments at the end of XML files can be removed if necessary.

OK, done.

>
> 2. I have read configuration requirements and this is what I was
> thinking about month ago, when we discussed about project
> customization with entities or XML with it's DTD. It seems to me that
> I found a few more requirements but I need some time to bring them
> back to my mind.

Yes, I've been trying to capture and flesh out your ideas.  Happy to hear any 
extra throughts you may have.

>
> 3. I don't understand why unique ids are causing problems?
>     a) They are "relative" ids

Now that you mention it, I think you are right.  My initial problem is that 
the generpublish.sh script copies all xml files into a temp directory (to 
extract <!--&entity;--> comments).  If we have files of the same name coming 
from different namespaces then they will overwrite each other in the tmp 
directory.  However we should be able to solve that by using &entity; tags 
properly.

>
> 4. Great to see that you started to work in configuration schema. I tried
> to work on this before my leave, however there was not enough time for
> that. Have you sample XML configuration file? I mean it is easier to
> understand schema or DTD if we have sample XML file containing all possible
> elements.

I've started a full configuration at generguide/resources/generconfig.xml
It is not as complete as the xsd yet, I will need to add some content to it.
Actually, I probaby should create a sample config.xml for the design docs.

>
> 5. I have exchanged e-mails with sdocbook-plugin maintainer for maven.
>     He send me corrected version of plugin for maven B10. I haven't time
>     to check it yet, however I try to do it before our IRC meeting.
>     He is abroad and couldn't update SF repository and public this release
>     but sent it to me as e-mail attachment, I can forward it to you if you
> like but it is about 0.5MB weigh.

Good work.
It is probably best use of our time if only one of us focuses on maven and 
sdocbook.  Also I fully trust your judgement, so unless you get stuck or run 
out of time, I'll wait to hear your assessment.

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