config language

[Bob Drzyzgula]

Ron,

FYI, I'm back and starting to mess with this. I'm digging
through some stuff and tinkering with some candidate
tools that will hopefully come close to your requirements
("simple" + "schema-based"). The bulk of my XML experience,
what there is of it, has been DTD-based, so this takes a
small bit of getting up to speed.

Validating, XSDL-aware, Python-based, simple-to-use
parsers are (perhaps you knew this :) about as scarce as
hen's teeth. The main Python XSDL processsor appears to be
XSV <http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html>, but I
haven't yet made an assesment of the "simple" criteria.
However, in digging around I find that recent builds of
4Suite <http://www.4suite.org/> provide some support for
RELAX NG (see <http://www.relaxng.org/>) which in fact may
be superior for this application because of its extensive
support for flexible content ordering.

More later.

--Bob

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:31:53AM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> 
> ok, Bob, let's do this: 
> 
> send me a pointer to a simple (!) XML parser.
> 
> Send me if you can a simple example of a simple thing that uses a simple 
> parser.
> 
> we'll take a look.
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron