[Osr-101] Misleading neutron specs example

[Andreas Wuest]

Hi

On 2.8.2006 15:46 Uhr, Thomas Comiotto wrote:

>> Whereas another question would be: how shall we treat documents with 
>> multiple different schemas? Imagine e.g. a XHTML document with 
>> embedded MathML.
>>
>> What we need is a) a way to specify multiple schemas and b) map the 
>> namespaces used in that document to the schema in question.
>>
> What we could provide protocol wise is multiple documents support where 
> every document has its schema attached and docs are glued together by a 
> view templating mechanism. The templating approach I proposed some mails 
> ago takes this into account.
> 
> Something like this (introducing file/fileset element within edit):
> 
> <edit>
>   <fileset>
>     <file url="foo.xml">
>        <schema url="foo.xsd"/>
>     </file>
>     <file url="bar.xml">
>        <schema url="bar.rng"/>
>     </file>
>   </fileset>
>   <stye url="foobar.xsl">
>     <template url="includesFooAndBar.xml"/>
>   </style>
> </edit>
> 
> Styles could also be attached to files within a fileset of course and 
> merged by client:
> 
> <edit>
>   <fileset>
>     <file url="foo.xml">
>       <schema url="foo.xsd"/>
>       <style url="foo.xsl">
>         <template url="includesFoo.xml"/>
>       </style>
>     </file>
>     <file url="bar.xml">
>       <schema url="bar.rng"/>
>       <style url="bar.xsl">
>         <template url="includesBar.xml"/>
>       </style>
>     </file>
>   </fileset>
>   <stye url="foobar.xsl">
>     <template url="includesFooAndBarTemplates.xml"/><!-- if templates 
> are provided, otherwise includesFooAndBar -->
>   </style>
> </edit>
> 
> Speaking off the client, source editing would have to be document 
> specific (multiple source views + 1 WYSIWYG view) and there are some 
> implications regarding file operations (checkin/out of filesets) that 
> have to be considered.

Is this a common case?

> All other usecases (including your example) can and should be covered by 
> a single schema (mixing xhtml+mathML, xhtml+rdf, ...). I think that's 
> what people might want to do most often. Luckily we don't have to deal 
> with approaches to combining schemas, because there are som HOT debates 
> on the relevant listservs about that for years now. If the client 
> supports schema constraints properly it will also support namespaces 
> mixing - whatever approach has been taken.

Hmm, but for that purpose, a schema which integrates e.g. XHTML and 
MathML first has to be created. Shall we take the easy route and simply 
offload that to the server?

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi