Re: JNLP xsd schema

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:21:48 GMT
Message-ID:
<7597cb5291447@uwe>
Roedy Green wrote:

I have a JNLP 1.0 xsd schema on my website which can be used to
validate JNLP files.
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javawebstart.html#VALIDATION

I would like to update that with a JNLP 1.5+ schema.


Not to my knowledge. Sun provides a DTD with the JNLP
Spec. documents.. umm.. where-is-it..
<http://www.google.com/search?as_filetype=dtd&as_sitesearch=java.sun.com>
U-yup, there.. 6th link..
<http://java.sun.com/dtd/JNLP-6.0.dtd>
though technically that is for 6, not 5.

..Google seems to
think nobody but me has a schema.


Google also finds my two XSD files at JavaSaver.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Ajavasaver.com+filetype%3Axsd>

Maybe there are no logical links (as parsed by Google)
to other 'naked' DTD's and XSD's (vague shrug).

..Is here one? I could I suppose
write one, but I would be nervous since I don't have language lawyer
genes, and I would hate to send people astray misinterpreting the
spec.


..issue a version with 'all disclaimers - use at own risk'
in the comments at the top, and be done with it - is
my 'IANAL response'.

As an aside, I had also been thinking of making an XSD
of the JNLP DTD, since I know there are tools which will
convert a DTD to a simple XSD (I don't know off-hand
what they are). I developed a DTD for the XScreenSaver
GUI config. files, somebody converted it to a XSD, and
we quickly abandoned the DTD and instead refined the
XSD.

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