[MEI-L] MEI as XSD or DTD

[Andrew Hankinson]

No, don't be confused! I'm not an "XML person" so my knowledge of the kinds of tools that are out there is somewhat limited. That's why I asked.

-Andrew

> On Nov 13, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Anna Plaksin <annplaksin at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew,
>  
> some months ago I was looking for XML editors with schema-based auto-completion and Oxygen is the only one I know with RNG support. Some others, as Rinzo, the TextGrid Lab and the XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++ support only auto-completion based on XSD.
> And, okay… because C# is the programming language I’m using most, I don’t know how good the RelaxNG support in other frameworks is, but the .net framework provides native support of XML schema without any external libraries.
>  
> I have to admit that I am a little bit surprised of your question. Apart from the “digital humanities community” I don’t know any person working with XML data that are aware of RelaxNG, they’re all using XML schema. Hm, I feel a little bit confused right now.
> Maybe in this situation I would feel fine if you just wait for other feedback.
>  
> Regards,
> Anna
>   <>
> Von: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de <mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de>] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hankinson
> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. November 2015 09:23
> An: Music Encoding Initiative <mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de <mailto:mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de>>
> Betreff: Re: [MEI-L] MEI as XSD or DTD
>  
> Hi Anna,
>  
> I'm curious to know which tools are in use that don't support RelaxNG -- is there a quick example you can share?
>  
> -Andrew
>  
>> On Nov 13, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Anna Plaksin <annplaksin at gmx.net <mailto:annplaksin at gmx.net>> wrote:
>>  
>> Hello Perry,
>>  
>> I would appreciate compatibility with XML Schema just because of the widespread support. Many more Editors and Frameworks natively support XML processing with automated validation against an XSD file. I experimented sometimes with a converted RNG file but there occurred false validation errors.
>> So, I would be very happy about compatibility but I see your point either. If I am the only one wishing for it, this topic would seem rather unimportant to me…
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Anna
>>  
>> Von: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de <mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de>] Im Auftrag von Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h)
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. November 2015 21:49
>> An: mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de <mailto:mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de>
>> Betreff: [MEI-L] MEI as XSD or DTD
>>  
>>  
>> Hello all,
>>  
>> The current content model of <provenance> uses a neat RNG trick that allows either an <eventList> or a text phrase.  No other schema language allows this kind of thing, so conversion of the RNG to an XSD or DTD form won't work.  Is there a need to maintain compatibility with XML Schema or DTDs?
>>  
>> --
>> p.
>>  
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