[Dev] PyCon Report

Nicholas Bastin nbastin at mac.com
Fri Apr 1 10:04:46 PST 2005


On Mar 31, 2005, at 11:38 PM, 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.

This isn't that big of a problem if you're willing to add one more step 
on startup.  If each parcel defined a schema fragment for its' types, 
then you can use XSLT on startup to assemble all of the fragments into 
a complete schema for that users' repository.

--
Nick



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