Re: questions about gconf future

[Mark Johnson <mjohnson redhat com>]

Marcin Antczak wrote:
> I have some questions about GConf future plans.
>
> 2. Are there plans to change current schema structure? And for example 
> to use standard XMLSchema structures?
> Expecially I think about this problem:
>
> Currently in GConf we can use some limited types of data in keys. 
> Allowed values are: string, int, bool, float, list, pair.
> And - maybe I'm wrong, but I really cannot see anything like this - 
> there is no way to validate and describe what exactly is allowed to 
> write in some keys.

If you do plan to go to XML schemas, _please_ consider implementing them 
via RELAX-NG[1], rather than via W3C XMLSchema. RELAX-NG supports 
datatypes, but is an order of magnitude easier to deal with. A much 
better design, IMO, and quickly becoming the de facto schema standard.

My $0.02...

Thanks,
Mark

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng
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