[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:43:39 -0400
Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Unfortunately,
> there seems to be a paucity of information regarding how to create
> formal specs for the documentation of notations in XML. Any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated.
IMHO, natural-language (English, French, or whatever) descriptions
are generally preferred to formal ones, as they are intelligible
to more people and generally "live" longer.
A document that says
The MagicDate format is as follows:
yyyywwd, where yyyy is a zero-padded Gregorian year number,
ww is a 2-digit week, and d is the day of the week.
Week 01 of a year is the week containing January 4.
Day 0 is Sunday, day 6 is Saturday.
does very nicely. Then you make it retrievable at
http://your.domain/defs/MagicDate.txt and
then declare the notation in your DTDs as
<!NOTATION MagicDate SYSTEM "http://your.domain/defs/MagicDate.txt">
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
