Re: Jakarta/Apache XML/RDF configuration file format(s)

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Daniel Lopez wrote:

[snip...]
> I have implmented it in the following way: One XML file to describe the
> syntax, type, etc of the data file and the data file. If you edit by hand
> you only have to modify the data file. The GUI loads the data file ad when
> it has to represent one of the entries, it looks up it in the definition.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Data:
> 
> <servername>www.myhost.com</serverName>
> <port>80</port>
> 
> Definition file:
> <string name="serverName" label="Server Name" width="20">
> <default>localhost</localhost>
> </string>
> <number name="port" label="Port" width="5">
> <default>80</default>
> </number>
> 
[snip...]

This looks a lot like the W3C's XML Schema proposal. I first heard of it
at one of Sun's XML sessions at JavaOne, they seem to be backing it.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/

jh