RE: [xml] Will xmllint use schematron?

[<John Hockaday ga gov au>]

Thanks Daniel for you very explicit and prompt reply. ;--)

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2005 4:48 PM
> To: Hockaday John
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Will xmllint use schematron?
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:08:15PM +1000, 
> John Hockaday ga gov au wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed that schematron is not mentioned the man 
> pages for xmllint.
> > > From this I expect that xmllint doesn't handle schematron.
>
>   right
>
> > If this is the
> > case is there any plan to add schematron capabilities to 
> xmllint and if so
> > when will that happen?
>
>   It happens when someone feels the urge to implement the support for
> it, provide the code, and maintain it. So far I have no such 
> urge myself
> it's the first time I get such a request, and we already have 
> support for
> 3 validation languages DTD, Relax-NG and Schemas (that 
> Kasiemir is working
> hard to try to finish). The fact that I don't feel like doing 
> it should
> not prevent people from attempting to add it, the code must 
> just follow
> existing libxml2 Licence and coding practices. One thing to 
> point out is
> that people already consider libxml2 "bloated" so one would need some
> justification to be provided if the implementation code is large.
>   I read http://www.schematron.com/iso/ quickly. I didn't 
> understand it.
> It seems it would require XSLT and EXSLT so it would not be 
> implementable
> at the libxml2 level since XSLT and EXSLT are provided in 
> libraries separate
> from libxml2. It seems "when" is then never as far as I can tell. But
> that could be implemented as a separate tool on top of 
> libxml2/libxslt/libexslt.
>
> Daniel
>
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