I hope somebody can help me. In a big RNG project that contains many files, I
repeatedly
use a particular name-class in various places throughout the project. (It's the
name class
of all names that are not in any of the namespaces used by my project, i.e. the
foreign
name class with respect to my project's namespaces.)
<anyName>
<except>
<nsName ns="http://myproject.org/ns1/"/>
<nsName ns="http://myproject.org/ns2/"/>
<nsName ns="http://myproject.org/ns3/"/>
</except>
</anyName>
Because it's used in lots of places, I'd like to factor the name-class
declaration out into a
separate file and reference the name class declaration in the locations where
it appears in
my files, so if my namespaces change, I can maintain them in one place.
The problem is, in RNG a name-class is not a pattern. So to factor it out into
an
<externalRef> does not seem to be possible, since <externalRef/> requires the
contents
of the referenced file to be a valid pattern.
Nor can I seem to use <include> to insert a reference to this fragment, because
a name-
class can't be the immediate child of a <define> or <grammar> element, for the
same
reason as above.
So in RNG, is there a clever way to factor out name-class declarations into a
separate file
and reference them as externals in some way?
Or am I missing the boat entirely here?
John
