do send a copy my way :-).  if you please Robert.

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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I put together an XML DOCTYPE for a Ada Component Registry, and tried it
> out on GNADE. If anyone who understands XML would like to look at it and
> criticize, I'll send you a copy.  But right now I consider it too
> preliminary to let loose in the wild.  I'll probably have a much better
> worked out version by the end of next week.  (Oops! Mental note to self,
> the registry itself needs a version number. ;-)
>
> I picked GNADE as a test case though, expecting it to be a decent stress
> test.  Boy was it!  For me as well as the XML grammer.  I'd like to
> comment on a few things that I found and what they mean for a formal
> registry, or for the Common Ada Library.
>
> One of the things that the registry does is makes the Zip or tar or
> whatever file that you can download more accessable.  Much more
> accessable.  Amazingly more accessable.  GNADE as delivered has over a
> dozen directories and if you actually compile it, creates a few more.
> (And just to confuse you puts some stuff into existing directories
> outside the GNADE structure.)  With the registry, you can look and see
> that most of the source files are children of GNU.DB, and that package
> declaration can be found in
>
>
> -- 
>                                                      Robert I. Eachus
>
> "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the
> goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical,
> down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or
> down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair
> of an old motorcycle."  -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
>