[tei-council] pesky PIs

[James Cummings]

On 26/04/13 13:45, Martin Holmes wrote:
> On 13-04-26 03:17 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> I know I should have squawked about this before, but this decision to
>> add PIs for Oxygen to use when validating ODD files has two downsides:
>> -- it does not work if you are offline (or tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk is
>> misbehaving, which does happen)
>> -- it does not help  you validate against some other version of the
>> schema, for example one you've just modified
>>
>> Of course, these can both be fixed by editing out the PI or changing it,
>> but the chances you'll remember to change it back before checking in the
>> document concerned are not good.
>>
>> Not sure what to do about it ... but isn't that what catalog files are for?
>
> We've gone from a situation in which the files were always invalid (in
> Oxygen) unless you set up a special local setup to one in which they're
> almost always valid unless you're making a change to the actual schema
> (which really doesn't happen that often, surely). In the latter case,
> can't you just generate your local version of the schema (make clean
> schemas) and validate against that?

Let's be clear here: I don't think we're adding PIs for 
oXygen.... oXygen is merely one editor lots of us happen to use 
which pays attention to the W3C working group note (now 3rd 
edition) in the area of associating schemas with XML documents. 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-model/

After next release when we point to the version on the website 
the use of catalogues and local copies of the schema should 
alleviate the problem of offline use.

-James


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