Re: [relax-ng] Conversion of comments between the compact and the XMLsyntax

[James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>]

> I don't know if there is a real need for this or if it's purely
> "academical" but I stumbled on this issue while presenting workarounds
> for people who would absolutely need to annotate "value" or "param"
> patterns and comments are one of them.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to workaround.  You can
annotate param (or value) patterns:

xsd:string {
  ## a pattern
  pattern = "xyzzy"
}

turns into:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<data type="string" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0";
datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes";>
  <param name="pattern">xyzzy</param>
  <a:documentation>a pattern</a:documentation>
</data>

Do you mean you want to be able to annotate particular characters with a
param or value? If so, why?

James