[JDEV] XML part of jabberd
Vitaly Ostanin
vyt at vzljot.ru
Tue Aug 27 10:32:33 CDT 2002
Hello, All!
I write jabber documentation in Russian, using DocBook/XML. I
have already written XSLT-styles for working on XML-configuration
of a jabber-server (and any XML-file :)). These styles create a
description templates in a separate DocBook/XML files for each tags.
I have following issues:
1.
Some of the tags are being used for different purposes, though
they have the same name.
E.g., the tag <allow> describes admissible conditions and
filtering actions, but the very same tag <allow> contains
admissible ip-addresses. I beg your pardon, but it seems to me
that it is a wrong way to use th XML structure - one tag should
stand for one semantic unit only. Otherwise it becomes quite
difficult to describe full paths to a tag :(
2.
The configuration file (IMHO) doesn't have an appropriate
syntaxis: the tag <jabberd:cmdline> doesn't contain description
of XML namespaces 'jabberd'.
I know that in v.1.5 the structure of the configuration will be
quite different. Can or may I have a look at least at sketches of
the new structure?
It would be more comfortable to use all features of a technology
by its further development.
E.g. using XML Schema for determination structure of the
configuration file. There isn't even a DTD usage at the moment,
though it's more about SGML than XML.
We could also use XML Inclusions (XInclude) for including parts
of configuration into basic configuration file.
Well, this is why I wonder, what XML-parser is in use for
jabberd, and why it is. There are parts of expat code in the
source code of jabberd. So is it worth to get linked to a
concrete parser? Maybe we could work out a universal API for
connection to other XML parsers?
E.g. libxml2 is the most appropriate to XML standards tool, where
UTF-8 is being used inside - just like in jabber. libxml2 has
MIT-license - just like expat has.
I clearly understand that the issued problems are pretty much
global, so I would appreciate an answer covering at least part of
them.
Thank you.
PS Special thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine for translation my
things in English :)
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Regards, Vyt
mailto: vyt at vzljot.ru
JID: vyt at vzljot.ru
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