[Dart] Looking for XML spec on Dart-client-to-server comm

[Scott W. Oster]

>>Scott: can you point me to what an XSD is?
XSD is just the TLA for XML Schema.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
Take a look at the tools section.
The primers in the specification section may also be helpful.

There are tools to pretty much generate you (a start to) an XSD from
whatever you have (code, DTD, sample XML document, database, etc).

Scott

 
 
Scott Oster
 
Senior Research Specialist
Biomedical Informatics Department
Ohio State University
oster at bmi.osu.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blezek, Daniel J (GE, Research) [mailto:blezek at crd.ge.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:31 PM
> To: Matthew England; Scott W. Oster
> Cc: dart at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [Dart] Looking for XML spec on Dart-client-to-server comm
> 
> All right, I actually anticipated a user need.  This is a RTM.  There
is a
> section in the Dart.pdf documentation called "Custom Test Results"
(check
> the latest version in SVN).  This should be enough to get started.  I
have
> not written a DTD, as I find them fairly useless for anything other
than
> ensuring the proper format.  Scott: can you point me to what an XSD
is?
> Though I'm happy to write a DTD, I doubt if it will really be useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> -dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dart-bounces+blezek=crd.ge.com at public.kitware.com
> [mailto:dart-bounces+blezek=crd.ge.com at public.kitware.com]On Behalf Of
> Matt England
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:32 AM
> To: Scott W. Oster
> Cc: Matthew England; dart at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [Dart] Looking for XML spec on Dart-client-to-server comm
> 
> 
> At 2/22/2006 09:21 AM, Scott W. Oster wrote:
> >One thing you can do for now to understand the format is to look at
the
> >freemarker rules in the dart repository.  I don't have the link
offhand,
> >but it shows you what tags Dart tries to process.
> 
> Excellent, that sounds like a great suggestion, I'll try poking around
the
> Dart server.
> 
> >   I XML Schema for
> >submission would be great in the long run. I'd much rather see an XSD
> >than a DTD as there are a lot of tools that could be leveraged.  For
> >example, one could generate an Object model from the schema to create
> >submissions from an embedded application.
> 
> I'm rather XML ignorant about such things as a different between an
XSD
> and
> a DTD, and how exactly this stuff generates an Object model, and what
this
> object model is.  Does this mean that one could auto-generate
something
> like a C++ class/interface straight from something like an XSD?  If
so,
> that would be *great*.  (I may be reflecting how little I work with
our
> Xerces interface in our existing XML parsing code.)  Can anyone care
to
> point me where I can learn about such stuff (eg, XSDs and diffs
between
> DTDs, etc), and my project can possibly help with this effort if we
> continue this endeavor?  (Some of my staff may already know this, but
I
> personally don't.)
> 
> -Matt
> 
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