- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 08 Apr 2000 11:51:49 +0100
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Richard Tobin and I have been working on a schema validator since late
last year. It implements the basic architecture, including <include>,
<import>, xsi:type, type def derivation. It checks content models
including equivalence classes, attribute decls, keys/keyrefs,
minimally implements <any/>. It has only a token effort at the
semantics of the primitive datatypes. It's implemented in Python on
top of our C-based validating XML parser [1], and is basically split
into three layers:
1) A declarative mapping from XML infoset to application structures
(this could have any other DOM-style parser retrofitted easily);
2) Construction and checking of schema components;
3) Instance validation.
I'm in the midst of completely re-implementing level (2), hope to
release at least a web-based validator via the W3C during the next
week. Once we go to CR, I expect we'll release it open source.
Anybody else care to summarise where their effort stands?
ht
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Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team
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