Re: JNLP xsd schema

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:27:18 GMT
Message-ID:
<75a145ddb44cc@uwe>
Piotr Kobzda wrote:

I got an email from Sun. They said they post a DTD for 1.5 and 6, but
no xsd or other advanced schemas. I have the URLS at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jnlp.html


Interestingly, theirs DTD for 6 seems to be invalid (in both, Sun site,
and in Appendix C of JNLP specification).


<grumble>Unfortunate, but not that surpsising for Sun.</grumble>
...

If you want convert them automatically to XSD ... some tools you can find there:
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema#Tools


Thanks. I never look forward to the initial work of
transforming DTD -> XSD.

(about a year ago I successfully used XMLSpy for that)

However, instead of validating against XSD, there is also possibility to
validate JNLP file against DTD directly.


Sure there is, but why would you bother?
XSD can check eveything specified in a DTD,
plus a whole lot more besides.

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