Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata.dtd: Remove obsolete <natural-name/> element per GLEP 68
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:35:01
Message-Id: 22306.44072.29070.772923@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata.dtd: Remove obsolete element per GLEP 68 by Brian Dolbec
1 >>>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Brian Dolbec wrote:
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3 > Isn't this almost obsolete? it's now xmlschema...
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5 Why would that make the DTD obsolete?
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7 The DTD can be used as input format for conversion to other formats
8 (like RNG or RNC). XML schema is pretty much useless in this respect,
9 since there seem to be no free conversion tools around that would
10 accept it as an input format.
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12 Ulrich