RE: [docbook] post v5.0 NS and schemata

["Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

Fabián,

The DocBook 5.0 standard requires a version attribute on
the root element of any document.  That version attribute
will be used to identify 5.0, 5.1, etc.  It can also be
used to identify variants.  That should take care of your
concern about identifying the appropriate schema for 5.0
based versions.

There is a discussion of versioning in the DocBook 5.0
Howto.  Here's a pointer to that section:

http://docbook.org/docs/howto/#cust-naming

Hope that helps,
Dick Hamilton
http://rlhamilton.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabián Mandelbaum [mailto:fmandelbaum@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 7:00 AM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook] post v5.0 NS and schemata
> 
> 
> Hello, I'm working on a system developed in Java that needs to
> validate its XML files,
> mostly docbook XML ones, using JARV 
> (http://iso-relax.sourceforge.net/JARV/)
> to perform 
> validation according to DTD/Schema (W3C, RNG, Trex, others,
> check its home page).
> JARV basically needs the doc and dtd/schema URIs.
> 
> I've found out that 'not all XML files are created equal' and in
> DocBook's case I have to support
> v4.x and v5.0 ones, and hopefully future (v5.1?) ones too.
> 
> After a small chat with dpawson (thx!) on IRC I've learnt that I can
> safely rely on db4.x files not to use
> NSes, having a DOCTYPE pointing on its system ID directly to the DTD
> URI. However, for db5 files
> all I have is a NS declaration, and not the URI of the schema itself.
> So I was wondering how to do
> to discern among different versions of db5+ docs to pass JARV the
> correct schema URI.
> 
> So, my algorithm's intelligence has to go for NS db5+ docs, I hope the
> DB committe defines 5.1
> (or whatever version it will be) in a SIMILAR way to db5.0... so it's
> easy to build up the schema URI
> with the base NS and the value of the (hopefully mandatory) version
> attribute of the root element.
> 
> That's my request: please define db5.x versions in a way that's not
> too hard for automated tools
> to guess the correct schema to validate db5.x docs against, thank you
> in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Fabián Mandelbaum
> IS Engineer
> 
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