Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

    
    Why are you using a DTD, which is the antithesis of Ada? A schema which
is the semantic equivalent (translation) of a collection of Ada types would
be far more appropriate. 
    Bob Leif
    Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
    Email rleif@rleif.com
    ------------------------------------------------
    Robert I. Eachus Wrote:
    
    Don't worry about it.  I said that I thought that the first version of 
    the XML document was not something I would be comfortable posting, but I

    would send copies to anyone who wanted to review it.  Stephane Richard 
    was willing to do so.  Unless there are significant changes, or more 
    people who want to take a shot at the current XML state, I will probably

    post version 0.2 to comp.lang.ada tomorrow.  Another potential delay is 
    that I am probably going to write an XML to HTML converter this weekend,

    so you can look at the HTML to make comments.
    
    No intent to exclude anyone, but XML is still not all that common a 
    language, and I felt the intersection of those who knew XML well enough 
    to comment, and were also interested in the registry project would be 
    pretty small.  Hmmm.  Actually, why not?  Here is the current XML 
    DOCTYPE, and the start of the registry declaration.  If you want a 
    snapshot of the whole thing, send e-mail.  But, please, only if you are 
    willing to read it and comment.:
    
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone=yes ?>
    <!DOCTYPE Ada_Component_Registry [
    <!-- Version 0.2 Doctype Copyright 2003 by Robert I. Eachus, copying 
    allowed, all other rights reserved for now. -->
       <!ELEMENT Registry (Author*, Project+, Entry+) >
       <!ATTLIST Registry
           Name         CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Version      CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Website      CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Copyright    CDATA  #REQUIRED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Project (Author*, Requires*, Supports*, Description?)
       <!ATTLIST Project
           Name         CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Version      CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Website      CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Bug_Reports  CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Copyright    CDATA  #REQUIRED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Entry (Author+, Description?, Requires*, Supports*, 
    Contents?)
       <!ATTLIST Entry
           Name      CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Project   CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Version   CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Source    CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Copyright CDATA  #IMPLIED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Author>
       <!ATTLIST Author
           Name      CDATA  #REQUIRED
           Email     CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Telephone CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Company   CDATA  #IMPLIED
           Address   CDATA  #IMPLIED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Compiler >
       <!ATTLIST Compiler
                 Name    CDATA   #REQUIRED
                 Version CDATA   #IMPLIED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Contents (#PCDATA )>
       <!ELEMENT Database>
       <!ATTLIST Database
                 Name    CDATA   #REQUIRED
                 Version CDATA   #IMPLIED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Date (((Month, Day?)?, Year)|#PCDATA)>
       <!ELEMENT Description (#PCDATA )>
       <!ELEMENT Full_Name (#PCDATA )>
       <!ELEMENT Language
       <!ATTLIST Language
                 Version (Ada80 | Ada83 | Ada95 | Ada2000 | Ada0X) "Ada95"
       <!ELEMENT OS>
       <!ATTLIST OS
                 Name    CDATA   #REQUIRED
                 Version CDATA   #IMPLIED
       >
       <!ELEMENT Project_Name (#PCDATA ) >
       <!ELEMENT Requires (Project_Name|Compiler|OS|Hardware)+ >
       <!ELEMENT Supports (Language_Version|Compiler|OS|Hardware)+ >
       <!ELEMENT Root_Name (#PCDATA )>
       <!ELEMENT URL (#PCDATA ) >
       <!ELEMENT Version (#PCDATA)>
       <!ATTLIST Version Date CDATA >
       <!ELEMENT Website (#PCDATA) >
    ]>
    
       <Registry Name="Ada Component Registry"
                 Version="0.2"
                 Copyright="Copyright 2003 by Robert I. Eachus, copying 
    allowed, all other rights reserved for now."
       >
    
    -- 
                                                 Robert I. Eachus
    
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