On Tuesday 24 May 2005 15:16, Carol Le wrote: > I apologize if this is not the right place to direct my question, but > I have not been able to find any forums with support for XBEL. If > this is not the write place to direct these questions, please let me > know where I can get some help. :c)
This is as good a place as any. > I am working on a master's thesis that argues for a standard to be > established for internet bookmarks. My thesis investigates XBEL as a I'd be interested in seeing the result, or a summary, when your thesis is complete. > One error that I continually get throughout my XML document is > something like the following: > -- Attribute value "09BDE5A6-6CE7-4137-AD4D-5FC6D380BFD5" of type ID > must be a name > This happens for every <bookmark id="someID"> tag that I use where > someID does not start with a letter. Does XBEL only allow name > ID's? Safari uses these id's that can oftentimes start with a > number. Does this mean that for XBEL, you cannot use Safari's ID's? XBEL uses XML IDs. It sounds like Safari is using something else as an identifier; not unreasonable. Encoding these into XBEL requires using some other metadata structure. > The second error that I get is something like the following: > -- Attribute "file-version" must be declared for element type > "metadata". > This occurs for every single <metadata> element I have. For the > above error, for example, the metadata element was <metadata > owner="Safari" file-version="1"/>. From reading the DTD and looking > at some XBEL examples, I was under the understanding that the > metadata attribute was so that you could put any application-specific > items. However, all of my application-specific items are not > validating correctly. Any suggestions? To validate, you'll need to create a new DTD that adds the additional structures you need. DTD validation can't specify that unknown attributes are allowed; this is a general limitation of DTDs. It should be fairly easy to create a derived DTD that supports the additional structures you need. Alternatively, you could create another kind of schema (W3C XSD, RelaxNG) for ues in validating specific documents. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
