Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
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> Stephen McConnell wrote:
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>> Today every DTD is relative to package.
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> Which is PITA for some dtds.
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>> Isn't is the packages responsibility to publish it?
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>
> yes...
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>> E.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/pheonix/dtd/... for something
>> related to Phoneix, or
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/meta/dtd/ for soemthing
>> relative to the Excalibur Meta Model Project. There isn't any
>> requirement for a pool of DTDs as such.
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>
> There is.
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> As I have clearly showed, there is no thechnical reason why general DTDs
> such as the meta descriptors cannot be standardized upon.
Agreed.
> If a DTD is generic enough, it should be standard.
> Keeping all DTDs in one place ensures that others will see them promptly
> and collaborate on them.
>
> So I'm +1 to have all DTDs that are common in
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> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/dtds/Foo.dtd
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> All DTDs that pertain *solely* to specific implementations go in
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> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/dtds/imp-name/Foo.dtd
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> For example, the xinfo DTD will go in avalon/dtd, while the extension
> dtd goes into avalon/extension/xt.dtd
Sounds good to me - promotion following concensus.
Cheers, Steve.
>> Peter Donald wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We got any standard for locating DTDs? Currently I have been storing
>>> them at locations like
>>>
>>> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/Foo.dtd
>>> http://jakarta.apache.org/phoenix/Bar.dtd
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> However I expect to see more of these little dtds arise over time.
>>> Phoenix alone may be looking a separate DTDs for * 2 different
>>> component models
>>> * role descriptors
>>> * manifest descriptors
>>> * assembly descriptors
>>> * classloader descriptors
>>> * management descriptors
>>> * security descriptors?
>>>
>>> Is there a preferred location for all of these? Is
>>> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/Foo.dtd good enough and we live with
>>> the fact that there may be 15-20 sitting there. Or do we chuck them
>>> in something like
>>>
>>> http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/dtds/Foo.dtd
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