Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2016-02-14

[Justin Lecher (jlec)]

On 03/02/16 21:46, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Justin Lecher (jlec) <jlec@g.o> wrote:
>> Could you please sum up the thread and come up with some precise
>> question we should discuss or vote on.
>
> The question is: what language should we use for XML validation in the future?
>
> There are two main contenders: RELAX NG (with a compact and an XML
> serialization) and XML Schema. Of course conversion between these
> schema formats is possible, but the question is what the canonical
> language should be and what other formats would be provided (and how).
>
> Summary:
>
> - I contended that RELAX NG compact serialization is more readable,
> and that DTD and RELAX NG validation are equally fast. I don't have
> much experience with XML Schema, but I do have a conversion tool for
> RNC (compact RELAX NG) -> RNG (RELAX NG XML syntax).
> - Michał has used both RELAX NG and XML Schema, and prefers the
> latter. It's more popular, and it seems that cross-referencing things
> is not supported (trivially) in RELAX NG, whereas it should be in XML
> Schema.
> - Robin prefers XML Schema, but can live with both.
> - trang seems to be a pretty decent tool for schema conversion, but it
> doesn't handle XML Schema as an input language (likely because of the
> complexity of XML Schema).
> - There is a standard for referring to RELAX NG or XML Schema schemas
> from XML documents, which would be useful for tool authors.
> - emacs nXML mode works only with RNC schema, which is a reason for
> Ulrich to prefer it.
> - Brian seems to like RNC for readability/flexibility reasons.
>
> I hope other will jump in if they feel I missed
> something/misrepresented their opinions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan
>

Thanks Dirkjan for the summary.

Justin