On 2002.11.06 22:40 James K. Lowden wrote: > On 06 Nov 2002 12:26:43 -0600, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Durk Strooisma wrote: > > > > > > We noticed that Dia doens't make use of DTDs or XML Schemas (for > > > example to validate Dia XML documents). Even correct DTDs or XML > > > Schemas aren't provided, which would be handy to validate Dia XML > > > documents within XML authoring tools. > > > > I don't know enough about DTDs and XML Schemas to judge whether this is > > a useful thing. We do have DTDs, but they're not used by Dia. > > Durk makes a good point. It would be useful, and it wouldn't be easy for > an outsider to contribute. Forgive me if I'm belaboring the obvious. > > If Dia relied on its DTD to validate a file prior to/while loading it, > then the DTD would be assured of being a good measure of a good Dia file.
Not that I know much about stylesheet validation either, but isn't it fairly computationally expensive, and thus typically only done as a "sanity check" apart from the application? > That would give non-Dia programs a benchmark for creating Dia files. And > it would assist non-Dia programs in interpreting Dia files. (BTW, do I I agree that formalizing a stylesheet validation would probably be a good thing. I have a hacky Perl script right now that writes a Dia file from a data dictionary, and stylesheet validation would help pinpoint errors in the Dia file caused by errors in my Perl code. Andy _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
