On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> But libxml2 does not seem to support it; that is, substituting the >> DOCTYPE for an xml-model processing instruction and then using xmllint >> --valid does not do the right thing (it complains there's no DOCTYPE). > > But does it /complain/ about the xml-model? Is it safe to add that to > our XML files (in terms of tooling and stability of the spec)? If so, I > can at least script the validation: parse the href from xml-model, fetch > it somehow, run it through rnc2rng, and then pass it to xmllint.
It does not seem to complain about the xml-model, so that should be quite viable. Can I ask what your interest is? What tools are you involved with that would want to use this? > Or we could even generate the rng files automatically and host them like > we do the DTDs to skip a step. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Too bad that we have to drag around both, but I think the advantages in terms of readability and modifiability for RNC and tool support for RNG really do make it the best solution to have canonical RNCs with pre-generated RNGs. Cheers, Dirkjan
