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> ----Original Message----- > From: Rick Jelliffe [SMTP:ricko@a...] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 3:04 PM > > From: Andrew Wheeler <akwheel@t...> >> (We do > >> not really want to spend time writing bespoke code, which we have > to > >> maintain). > > Err...what about HTML? > > You write the DTD in an HTML editor with some JavaScript popup links > on > each interesting keyword. > > To generate the text version of the DTD, SaveAs... to text. > > You can hypertext link to any part of the DTD and you don't need to > buy > any tools, or sit around waiting for future DTD-in-instance-schema > tools > to be marketed. > > [Andrew Wheeler] Your solution seems to be exactly what I don't > want, i.e. writing bespoke code that we have to maintain. Maybe I > didn't phrase my question correctly. I'll try again without some of > the waffle (well a bit of it). > We have a data model in an XML DTD. We need to describe the elements and attributes of the data model (context, usage, allowable values, examples, CM info etc.). We would like a tool (COTS fully supported for clients peace of mind) that will allow us to hold the model and descriptions in one place. Separation of the model and the descriptions will give us a maintenance headache as we expect the model to evolve over time. This is our first requirment. We would also like there to be HTML output so our developers can navigate the model, see the descriptions of the elements and attributes and not buy the tool, again if possible (Rational Rose 98i for UML models does this). Our second requirement. We are currently using Near and Far, which does not do exactly what we want (allows comments at a single level, i.e. attribute list comment, not element comment and attribute comment), and are mystified at the lack of GOOD tool support for a technology that is heralded as the saviour of the web!! From your response, and others, then I think maybe we are asking too much, also given the fact that XML Schema is on the way this limited tool support may change direction anyway! Are we being unreasonable? Regards Andrew > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, > mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on > CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following > message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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