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List:       forrest-dev
Subject:    Re: xml-document not defined
From:       David Crossley <crossley () indexgeo ! com ! au>
Date:       2003-08-31 5:43:08
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cheche@che-che.com wrote:
> Jeff Turner wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if this is a good idea.  Most projects are still using
> > doc-v11.  I'm using doc-v20a.
> 
> I am happy to move that to doc-v11

The point is that this declaration should not be hard-wired.
Can it be configured, perhaps in the forrest.properties file?

> > What is the benefit of adding a DOCTYPE
> > declaration to our intermediate XML?
> 
> because you produce xml output as well, I use that to validate the xml
> files:
> 
> on skinconf:
> <disable-xml-link>false</disable-xml-link>
> 
> forrest
> forrest validate-site
> 
> you need DOCTYPE to validate it.

The validation stuff is a nice facility. It certainly shows
some problems. I have started to fix some of its revelations.

As various people have been hinting in the past, Relax NG would
be a good solution here - no need to declare a DTD. Anyway what
you have is good for a start.

I too think that we should consider the impacts and side-effects
of adding a document type declaration to the internal xml.

Rather than adding the document type declaration by default, it may be
better to have this as a user tip in the validation.html document.

Always adding the DTD must slow it down a little in production
because the xml parser then needs to resolve and read yet another DTD.

--David




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