Sylvain Wallez wrote:
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So it seems to me validation is good to easily write a syntax checker and let the java code in treeprocessor concentrate on more detailed "semantic" validation.
too bad this is not done.
So what about *requiring* schema-validation to happen each time a sitemap is loaded, i.e. have the use of a validating parser be hard-coded in the treeprocessor. This schema-validation phase would be a part of the global consistency checks performed by the treeprocessor, implemented by tools adequate for this task.
Now the problem, AFAIU, comes more from the fact that we're trying to validate not only the sitemap, but also the configuration of each component, which may take very various forms and obey to some complicated logic.
yes, but this is an argument on how the sitemap descriptor is defined. Why does everybody think that validation and schemas are synonims?
I don't think they are synonyms, but that a schema is an adequate tool to easily perform the first phase of a global validation process.
Sylvain
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