Re: [PATCH 1/4] dtd: enhance APN types, add APN plans

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 16:48 +0300, Oleg Zhurakivskyy wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> >>> What if an APN is used for both post- and prepaid (which all I have
> >>> encountered have been)? Is the idea then to tag them as postpaid?
> >> One alternative would be to further enhance the database format in
> >> order to permit multiple plans for the APN
> >
> > Japp.
> 
> I am trying to enhance the DTD so this could be possible. So, something like this:
> 
> ...
> <!ATTLIST apn plan ENTITIES #IMPLIED>
> <!ENTITY prepaid "p1">
> <!ENTITY postpaid "p2">
> ...
> 
> and the test input is:
> 
> ...
> <apn value="test" type="internet" plan="prepaid postpaid"/>
> ...
> 
> However, when validating, xmllint gives an error:
> 
> serviceproviders.xml:XX: validity error : ENTITIES attribute plan reference an 
> entity "postpaid" of wrong type
>                          <apn value="test" type="internet" plan="postpaid prepaid">
>                                                                                   ^
> Any idea what could be wrong and how this can be achieved? Thanks in advance!

I don't know specifically, but I think in the end we do want exactly
this type of flexibility.  We want to be able to specify multiple items
for each APN in the 'type' and 'plan' attributes.

Dan