On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:31:15PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > >>>>> "David" == David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > David> We could. However, proper support for Entity Catalogs is > > David> not yet in Ant. So we need to use a rudimentary catalog > > David> facility which automatically builds an internal > > David> catalog. This works, but is cumbersome. > > > > David> I still think that the Anteater discussion links that i > > David> provided earlier in this thread is the most promising > > David> option. This was building validation facilities for > > David> Anteater which could also be used in Cocoon. > > > > OK. Has this progressed at all? > > I do not know, i just signed on to the aft-devel list > to help out. Perhaps the others can say ... Ivelin, Jeff ...
No progress the specific topic of that email. I think JARV [1] might be a better set of interfaces to standardise on. In the context of this discussion, Anteater is probably the wrong tool. I think the best solution would be to add a DOCTYPE declaration to the sitemap and let the parser validate. This has the added benefit that users with catalog-aware editors [2] can validate as they edit. > > I don't necessarily suggest integrating it into CVS, as it will > > involve adding DOCTYPEs to all the sitemap.xmap files, and this might > > add extra overhead during parsing. > > I wondered about that too. How often does a sitemap get parsed? Perhaps > the overhead is immaterial. If performance becomes a problem, we can add a switch to cocoon.xconf which turns off sitemap validation. I wrote a tool, http://doctypechanger.sf.net for programmatically stripping off a DOCTYPE declaration, which is the only way to prevent DTD parsing. If we want to go this route, I can suggest integrating this 'switch-off-DTDs' flag into the o.a.e.xml.Parser implementation in Excalibur. It could then be exposed in cocoon.xconf as something like: <xml-parser ... <parameter name="validate" value="false"/> <strip-doctypes> <!-- Don't validate sitemaps --> <publicId>-//APACHE//DTD Cocoon Sitemap V1.0//EN</publicId> <!-- Don't validate treeprocessor-builtins.xml --> <rootElement>tree-processor</rootElement> <!-- DO validate Forrest docs.. <publicId>-//APACHE//DTD XML Documentation V1.1//EN</publicId> --> .... </strip-doctypes> </xml-parser> In the long term it might to better to abandon DTDs and this silly idea of parse-time validation altogether. But since Colin went to all the trouble of writing a DTD, it would be good to use it :) --Jeff [1] http://iso-relax.sourceforge.net/JARV/ [2] http://xml.apache.org/forrest/your-project.html#N102AD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
