I do validation w/ant as well as via a custom class so it looks like
I'm covered on that part anyhow. Thanks!
- Andy
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:49:00 -0500 (EST), Dave Brondsema
<dave@brondsema.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Andy J wrote:
>
> > HI, all. . . I just downloaded and installed Forrest yesterday to try
> > to determine if it would work in my case. So I spent all day with it
> > and was pretty happy and optimistic about the prospects. It will be
> > deployed on a SunOne java server so using the webapp-war option
> > bundled up my webapp and that part went great. I'm finally starting
> > to grok the concepts and successfully put some sdocbook source in
> > which transformed perfectly, very slick.
> >
> > I'm still trying to figure out if it will work in my case and was
> > hoping someone could pipe in about two questions.
> >
> > 1. I know the surest way to determine this is to try it - but I
> > didn't get that far and someone might know: will Forrest validate
> > against an XML Schema schema? I have a lot invested in an existing
> > schema and don't want to spend more time morphing it to RNG or DTD.
> > So this is sort of a showstopper (or starter) issue.
> >
>
> We generally have forrest do minimal validation (just to make sure it can
> handle the input files). You should do editing and validation with a
> seperate tool designed to do that to get the best error messages possible.
>
> Forrest's validation stages are done via Ant, so you can modify it to
> support whatever type of validation you need. You could also add a Ant
> "wrapper" script which does your own validation stages first and then
> invokes the main forrest targets. Then you wouldn't have to modify
> forrest itself.
>
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