Re: NVDL, SVG validation (Was: first questions on validator.nu)

On Jan 9, 2008, at 18:27, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
>>> I think that something very similar will get into next official  
>>> version
>>> of NVDL language.
>>
>> Allowing arbitrary XPath there would preclude reasonable streaming
>> implementations and would be an overkill for the SVG profiling use  
>> case.
>> Precluding streaming implementations seems like a bad idea. Have you
>> discussed this with oNVDL developer(s)?
>
> Read "something very similar" as something which will be either
> streamable XPath subset, or XPath subset only with self, attribute,
> parent, ancestor and ancestor-or-self axes (which requires only decent
> stack of element nodes on ancestor-or-self axis + their attribute  
> nodes).

Nice! :-)

In another message, I wrote:
>> I'm planning on allowing users to filter out namespaces of their  
>> choice without having to write an NVDL schema. However, it seems  
>> that there's more demand for syncing the HTML5 schema with the  
>> December content model change, so I'm prioritizing that.

Now deployed. Sample:
http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fphilip.html5.org%2Fdemos%2Fcanvas%2F3d%2Fx3d%2Ftest.xhtml&charset=&nsfilter=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.web3d.org%2Fspecifications%2Fx3d-namespace

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Monday, 14 January 2008 16:28:59 UTC