[Dev] PyCon Report

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:38 PM 3/31/05 -0800, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>Hi Nick,
>
>Yes, a validator would help. The design of parcel xml makes that slightly 
>tricky, as the definition of new Kinds would need to define the xml 
>schemas. Each parcel that defines new Kinds defines a new namespace.
>
>We could of course define an xml schema for the core items (Kind, 
>Attribute, etc.). We could also define xml schemas for common Kinds in the 
>framework (Blocks, WakeupCallers).

If you really wanted to go this route, I'd suggest making use of the XML 
Metadata Interchange (XMI) format, version 2.0.  It includes 
transformations from XMI to XML Schema and vice versa (along with UML 
mappings), and the Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) supports automatically 
generating custom GUI editors for content defined via such schemas.

In other words, if I understand all this correctly, you can design an 
application model in a UML editor, throw the XMI of it into EMF, and then 
generate an XML schema for the application data, and a GUI to edit files 
according to that schema.  So, at that point you're fully TLA compliant.  ;)