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[wtp-incubator-dev] Re: VEX DTD/Schema Registration
Thanks, Ed. I think we can work something out, as you can add DTDs by both Public ID as well as System IDs. The advantage of the XML Catalog is that it allows for both internal and external DTDs to be defined, as well as those defined in plugins that contribute to the catalog. The other advantage is that it allows XML Schema to be referenced easily as well. The current DocBook 5 will make use of Namespaces so VEX is going to have to become XML Schema aware as we move it forward as well as namespace aware.
There is one more question I have, and that is if you know if the all the Unit Tests have been passing with VEX in the past. When I added ran the tests, a vast majority of them do pass, but there are several that won't pass as they are, as there are nulls being passed for some Classes that aren't expecting them. Just curious as before we go through and start making modifications to leverage some of the WTP functionality and the Content Model provided by the XML editors, I'd like to get the unit tests passing. 

Dave


Ed Burnette wrote:

Using the XML Catalog sounds ok as long as it supports both local and public ids. Ideally the catalog would just have an optional field/property for the display CSS, or maybe there could be a convention where the .css has to be in the same directory and have the same name as the .dtd. The editor needs to be able to find which dtd and css to use just by looking at the first few lines of the file being edited.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carver [mailto:d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:42 PM
To: WTP Incubator Dev list; Ed Burnette
Subject: VEX DTD/Schema Registration

Ed, you mentioned that we should take a look at possibly not requiring
the VEX Plugin Project to be created to hold the DTD and CSS
stylesheets.   That the user should be able to do this with out having
to go through this process.   A thought would be to leverage if possible
the XML Catalog provided by WTP as a possible list of available content
models to be used (either DTD or Schemas).   As for registering the CSS,
we should probably provide a configuration preference page for
registering the CSS stylesheets to be used.

You've used VEX more to help write some of your books, so any input you
have would be appreciated.   The code is checked in and there is now a
special component in the WTP Incubator bugzilla for reporting these issues.

Dave

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