- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:48:11 +0900
- To: "Lieske, Christian" <christian.lieske@sap.com>
- CC: public-i18n-its@w3.org
Hi Christian, all, only editorial, see below. Lieske, Christian wrote: > Hi there, > > Here's my suggestion. I guess a good place for the text would be the end of > the overview of the best practices for developers (ie. just before BP 1). > Possibly we may want to go for a sub-heading like "General Remarks on > Adapting Schemas". > > Thanks to Felix for his input to this. > > Cheers, > Christian > === > > The "How to do this" parts of this document often contain statements related > to schema creation or modification. The statements pertain to one of the > following state-of-affairs: > > 1. creating a schema from scratch > 2. modifying an existing schema > > The following aspects may need to be taken into account when working on both > of these topics: > > 1. Think twice before creating your own schema. Consider strongly existing > formats such as DITA, DocBook, OpenOffice, XUL, UBL, ... Those formats have > many insights 'built-in'. > > 2. The mechanisms which you can or have to use depend on the schema > language (DTD, XSD, RelaxNG, ...). Namespace-based modularization of schemas > for example is hard to realize for DTDs. > > 3. Very often each schema formalism provides several possibilities related > to modification. XSD for example provides statements such as "import", > "include", or "redefine" as well as mechanisms such as type > substitution/derivation. > maybe s/each schema formalism/a schema language/ Felix
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