Re: [docbook] DocBook and Schematron

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Thomas Schraitle wrote:


>> Furthermore, what's the purpose of file "docbook.nvdl"?
> 
> That's the "Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language", see [1].
> With the help of this file and a respective validator that supports NVDL,
> you can validate XML documents that are composed of different
> Schemas *without* customizing the original one.
> 
> A good explanation can be found here [2].
> 
> Tom
> 
> ---- References
> [1] http://www.nvdl.org/
> [2] http://jnvdl.sourceforge.net/about-nvdl.html

I think you may consider using Schematron if your extensions were being 
'broken' by users and wanted to check them?

I've done a small write-up on nvdl too.

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/nvdl/

regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
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