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The purpose of the Serene project is to create an open source
validation engine implementing the JAXP 1.3 Validation Framework API
for RELAX NG, that concentrates on good messages and a clear handling
of ambiguity and conflicts.

For this release, Serene has been extensively reviewed and refactored
in order to improve performance. Some bugs were fixed, messages were
slightly tweaked, one feature was added.

For more information, please come to
http://code.google.com/p/serene/

Thank you,
Radu Cernuta

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Docbook FAQ.
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http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/rng/svg-basic-font.rng has the following
(if you prefer to read it in RNC, see the RNC equivalents at the end)

<define name="SVG.font-face.extra.class">
<notAllowed/>
</define>

<define name="SVG.font-face.content">
<zeroOrMore>
<ref name="SVG.Description.class"/>
</zeroOrMore>
<optional>
<ref name="font-face-src"/>
</optional>
<ref name="SVG.font-face.extra.class"/>
</define>

So SVG.font-face.extra.class is defined as notAllowed at that point.

Then, http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/rng/svg-font.rng has the following
(let's call it A):

<include href="svg-basic-font.rng"/>

<define name="SVG.font-face.extra.class" combine="interleave">
<optional>
<ref name="definition-src"/>
</optional>
</define>

Is that valid? Or should it instead be the following (let's call it B):

<include href="svg-basic-font.rng">
<define name="SVG.font-face.extra.class" combine="interleave">
<optional>
<ref name="definition-src"/>
</optional>
</define>
</include>

I ask because if I keep it as in A above, it causes jing to throw an NPE
(which is a bug in jing regardless, and I already raised an issue for it:
http://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/issues/detail?id=156), but if I change
it to B, jing works as expected.

--Mike

[1] Same bits above as RNC instead:

In file svg-basic-font.rnc:

SVG.font-face.extra.class = notAllowed
SVG.font-face.content =
SVG.Description.class*,
font-face-src?,
SVG.font-face.extra.class

Then in svg-font.rnc:

(A)
include "svg-basic-font.rnc"
SVG.font-face.extra.class &= definition-src?

(B)
include "svg-basic-font.rnc" {
SVG.font-face.extra.class &= definition-src?
}

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I'm using Trang to generate a RelaxNG schema from a set of XML
documents. I've run into a result I don't understand and which I hope
someone can explain.

Here are 4 xml documents:

case1.xml: One A element followed by one B element

<root>
<A>xxxxx</A>
<B>yyyyy</B>
</root>

case2.xml: One A element followed by two B elements

<root>
<A>xxxxx</A>
<B>yyyyy</B>
<B>yyyyy</B>
</root>

case3.xml: One B element followed by one A element

<root>
<B>yyyyy</B>
<A>yyyyy</A>
</root>

case4.xml: Two B elements

<root>
<B>yyyyy</B>
<B>yyyyy</B>
</root>

Using these 4 documents as input, Trang (both version 20081028 and
20091111) generates the following RNG schema:

<grammar ns="" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"
datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
<start>
<element name="root">
<oneOrMore>
<choice>
<element name="A">
<data type="NCName"/>
</element>
<element name="B">
<data type="NCName"/>
</element>
</choice>
</oneOrMore>
</element>
</start>
</grammar>

or in compact syntax:

default namespace = ""

start =
element root {
(element A { xsd:NCName }
| element B { xsd:NCName })+
}

What is surprising to me is that the resulting pattern does not
require a B element so that the following document:

<root>
<A>xxxxx</A>
</root>

is valid, though I'd assume it would be invalid, given that a B
element is present in each of the input instances.

Is this a bug or mistake on Trang's part or something which is to be
understood as a reasonable result? I can imagine that inferring
patterns from a set of sample documents must be difficult going and
that what one gets from Trang might not be optimal. I would like to
understand it better, however, so I can adjust my expectations for
what I'll get from it and what additional work I might need to do to
use what it produces.

Thanks,

Terry

I think a 0.5 or 1.0 day hands-on tutorial on RELAX NG, or a 1.0 or
1.5 day hands-on tutorial on Schematron would be quite apropos for
this group. (What would be best, IMHO, is a 3-day hands-on tutorial
on TEI customization that covers TEI, ODD, RELAX NG, and Schematron,
but the call limits tutorials to 2 days.) -- Syd

===================================================

Call for pre-conference workshop and tutorial proposals

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2012 Annual Conference and Members? Meeting of the TEI Consortium
Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture

* Workshop proposals due Wed 15 May 2012
* Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012
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The TEI Conference and Members' Meeting will be preceded by
educational tutorials or workshops. The goal of the tutorials is to
give an opportunity to learn more about the use of TEI markup under
the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners, whereas
workshops are an opportunity for specific groups to meet and work
together on a TEI related subject.

Workshops and tutorials range in length from a single morning or
afternoon to a maximum of two days. Tutorials are run on a
cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that
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expected to be free of charges.

If you are interested in proposing either a workshop or a tutorial
for the 2012 Members? Meeting and Conference, please submit your
proposal as early as possible and before 15 May 2012 via conftool,
the availability of which will be announced shortly. Expressions of
interest should include as much as possible of the following
information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in
developing their proposals):
* A proposed topic
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* Preferred length of the event
* Infrastructural requirements
* (In the case of a tutorial) A proposed instructor or slate of
instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience,
as well as a preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if
any).
* (In the case of a workshop) A core list of people who are likely
to participate, keeping in mind that workshops are by essence
open for participation
Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the
like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local
organising committee.

Tutorial proposals will be evaluated by the programme committee
primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community,
the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction,
and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this
date to refine the details of their proposals.

Please send queries to meeting-Ezmyqz1S863YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org.

For the International Programme Committee,

Elena Pierazzo (chair)
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Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Chair of the Teaching Committee
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
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Phone: 0207-848-1949
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Call for papers and proposals
==== === ====== === =========

TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d
2012 Annual Conference and Members¹ Meeting of the TEI Consortium
Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture

* Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012
* Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2011
* Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call)

The Programme Committee of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI - http://www.tei-c.org/) Consortium invites
individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool
demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts,
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Submission Topics
---------- ------
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- TEI and text corpora
- The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation
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- Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards
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particular in relation to other formats or software environments)

In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper
presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained
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---------- -----
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minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.

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formats, including:

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time should be left for questions & answers after brief optional
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poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and
tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with
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---------- ---------
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section for each panel member.

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-----------
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Please send queries to meeting <at> tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings,
edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding
Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be
forthcoming.

For the International Programme Committee,

Elena Pierazzo (programme committee chair)

I'm confused. If I use the schema attrbug.rnc (see below) it seems to
let through multiple spaces in a row, even though that shouldn't be
legal.

I'm using this pattern:
xsd:token { pattern="[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*( [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*)*" }

Below is a test file that I'm using with "java -jar jing.jar -c
attrbug.rnc attrbug.xml".

What's going on here? Does jing coalesce spaces in attributes before
matching against xsd:token? Or am I missing something?

--Jason

--- begin file attrbug.xml ---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<model>
<item class="foo bar baz">we want a class attribute with multiple
identifiers separated by single spaces.
</item>
<item class="foo bar baz">why does this not fail?</item>
<item class="3 4 5">this fails as expected</item>
</model>
--- end file ---

--- begin file attrbug.rnc ---
# RELAX NG compact-syntax grammar

grammar {

# contains a model element
# the model element contains one or more item elements

start = element model { model-content }

model-content =
item+

item =
(element item { item-content })

item-content =
attribute class { identifier-array },
arbitrary-text-description

############### Text patterns ###############

arbitrary-text-description =
text

identifier =
xsd:token { pattern="[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*" }

identifier-array =
xsd:token { pattern="[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*( [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*)*" }

}
--- end file ---

In doing a conversion as follows

jing -s -c dk-extensions.rnc > dk-extensions.rng
trang dk-extensions.rng dk-common.rnc


I get this in the resulting output file:

_1 = element * { notAllowed }

And within the file a bunch of:

     | _1

which result in interleave errors elsewhere in the document

E [Jing] the element "nutrition" from namespace "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" can occur in more than one operand of "interleave"

unless removed.

Any idea why?

Regards

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Hi,

I've written a script that I thought would flatten various rnc files into one such that dk-extensions.rnc includes cookery.inc, phrasebook.inc and db-publishers-sc.rnc but I'm not sure it works.

jing -s -c dk-extensions.rnc > dk-extensions.rng
trang dk-extensions.rng dk-common.rnc

although when I search for some of the text included in the dk-extensions.rnc by the cookery.inc or phrasebook.inc I don't easily find it.

include "../cookery/cookery.inc"
include "../phrasebook/phrasebook.inc"


Or if I search for  "condition.attribute" which is included by the following text I don't find it in the resulting dk-common.rnc

include "db-publishers-sc.rnc" {
  db.condition.attribute =
   
    ## DK Specific: values are enumerated here:
    attribute condition { "prt" | "dig" | "imperial" | "metric" }
}

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong or if this should work at all?

Regards



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Hello,

I'm hoping someone can point me at a library (preferably java) that will parse an RNG schema and subsequently answer questions like:

What parents are allowed for a given element?

What children are allowed for a given element?

What are the attributes of a given element?

So that I can in turn set up a RESTful web service having a call like:

GET http://myservice.ca/schemaName/elementName

returning JSON, something like:

{ "element" : "elementName",
"allowableChildren" : ["child1", "child2", "child3"],
"allowableParents" : ["parent2", "parent2"],
"attributes" : ["attrib1", "attrib2"],
"documentation" : "documentationIfAvailable"
}

The information would be used to provide general and contextual help in an online js editing environment we're building. The general help would look a lot like the TEI help pages, e.g.,

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-actor.html

The contextual help would filter allowed tags given current tag position.

james

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As a test, I created a simple DocBook document by copying example 1.2
from DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
<title>Sample article</title>
<para>This is a very short article.</para>
</article>

I then attempted to validate this using jing:

java -jar /usr/share/java/jing.jar relaxng.rng test.xml

and also:

java -jar /usr/share/java/jing.jar -c relaxng.rnc test.xml

In both cases I get the following output:

> /home/jim/test/documentation/test.xml:2:78: error: element "article"
> not allowed here; expected element "ns:attribute", "ns:choice",
> "ns:data", "ns:element", "ns:empty", "ns:externalRef", "ns:grammar",
> "ns:group", "ns:interleave", "ns:list", "ns:mixed", "ns:notAllowed",
> "ns:oneOrMore", "ns:optional", "ns:parentRef", "ns:ref", "ns:text",
> "ns:value" or "ns:zeroOrMore" (with
> xmlns:ns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0")

So, I am obviously doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what
by reading the jing documentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jim

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