Hi everyone, I did an early draft of a XML schema for Tomboy notes files. Please have a look at it.
I submitted a bug (#557351) and attached the files there for easy access: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557351 I did this work as part of my Tomdroid project, to ease interoperability between Tomboy and its growing list of compatible reimplementations. I'll try not to repeat the bug report here so if you want more info check the bug. The schema spec used (RELAX-NG Compact) is very easy to read and I encourage everyone to take a quick look. The latest version will be available from here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~olivier-bottomlesspit/tomdroid/main but I hope that this will be included upstream. The status for now: I think that it gets the picture about what you can expect of the tomboy files but not the way around. What I mean by that is that I'm pretty sure someone can come up with a note that will pass this schema but will not do as expected in tomboy. This is where it needs love. Now for the specific questions: - Is tomboy picky about top-level element ordering? Would it cope with badly ordered top-level elements? Right now, the schema is very linear and expect stuff to be ordered (except for note-content). - Is there a kind of Object XML Mapper layer (analogous to ORM)? I checked NoteBuffer.cs and its a very big class.. Does all the load from xml and save from xml magic happen there? - What license should I use? For now I've put the schema under LGPL 2.1 since tomboy's /trunk/COPYING is that. Comments? - Can I edit the wiki page NoteXmlFormat to document what I validate with the schema? http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/NoteXmlFormat Thanks! <shameless plug>About Tomdroid: http://launchpad.net/tomdroid</shameless plug> p.s.: I said I would *try* not to repeat the bug report, I guess I failed.. -- Olivier Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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