It seems like this is the sort of thing that http://nvdl.org/ was
designed for. Though it probably hasn't reached enough momentum to be
the way LoC does it, this might be an interesting test case for it.
Kevin
On 3/8/07, Jerome McDonough <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's as much of a problem as you think it is. I can imagine crude
> work arounds, to wit, create XML Schema-based records
> separately, validate them, and then import them into a RelaxNG
> document without references to their original
> schema. But I don't think anyone wants to go there if they can avoid
> it.
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Terry Catapano wrote:
>
> > It would be great to have an official RNG version of METS, but
> > wouldn't the lack of RNG versions of external schemas upon which
> > METS relies limit its usefulness? One could include data in
> > official RNG for TEIHEADER and EAD, for example, but not (to my
> > knowledge at least) MODS, MARC, MIX, METSRIGHTS, PREMIS, etc... for
> > which only W3C schemas are available.
> >
> > Am I correct, or is inclusion of external namespaces in different
> > schema *languages* not as much of a problem as I think it is?
> >
> > Terry
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Clifford Wulfman wrote:
> >
> >> I, too, would appreciate a Relax NG version of the METS schema, as
> >> some of the tools I use (in particular nxml-mode in Emacs) require
> >> it. I'd be happy to help with Erik Hetzner's effort to create and
> >> maintain such a schema.
> >>
> >> --Cliff
> >>
> >>
> >> Clifford Wulfman
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > Terry Catapano
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