Re: [xbiblio-devel] Citeproc json data input specs

[Rintze Z. <R.M.Zelle@TUDelft.nl>]

Did one of you already find a way to validate JSON input using csl-data.rnc?
I would like to help out with extending csl-data.rnc, but I would greatly
appreciate the support offered by validation. Frank already prepared a
script to extract the JSON from the citeproc unit tests (
http://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-utils/changeset/54171a592344). Perhaps the
following script would prove useful to convert the JSON files to XML?:
http://michalkorecki.com/content/introducing-json-xml-jquery-plugin

Rintze

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Jakob Voss <jak...@gb...> wrote:
> > Hi Bruce,
> >
> >>> The Relax NG schema defines an XML format as serialization of
> >>> the data model (by the way the same format could and should also
> >>> be defined by an XML Schema document).
> >>
> >> Yes, except that a) I HATE XSD, and b) CSL is authored in RNG, and so
> >> it's easy to pull in patterns to avoid duplication.
> >
> > As far as I can read
> >
> > http://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-schema/src/tip/csl-data.rnc
> > http://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-schema/src/tip/csl-types.rnc
> > http://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-schema/src/tip/csl-variables.rnc
> >
> > the same structure can also be expressed in XSD so it should be possible
> > to automatically derive an XSD file from it, for instance
> > with James Clark's Trang
> >
> > http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html
> >
> > Having an official XSD for CSL record input format is not Top #1 but
> > surely necessary for widespread adoption because some people love XSD
> > (or do not know better ;-). The RNG should be the master of course.
>
> I've never met anyone who "loves" XSD :-)
>
> If someone asks us for an XSD because they really need it, then yes,
> it's trivial enough to provide. But that's not yet happened. It may
> also not be a perfect match the RNG, since RNG has some features XSD
> does not.
>
> Bruce
>