[stellation-res] Schema related question

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been starting to work on XML schemas for the transport format
to be used for the new API. I've got a rather nasty RSI problem with my
wrists, and typing the XML is painful. So I threw together a 
pre-processor
that lets me type it in a more compact, less wrist-stressful manner. It 
has
the property that when it translates to standard XML syntax, the 
line-number
of anything in the document is unchanged, so error messages will point
to the right place in both formats.

My question, such as it is, is the following:  should I check in my 
schemas
in my short syntax, along with the preprocessor, or should my 
pre-processor
just be a personal tool.

I'm enclosing the work-in-progress schema in both forms. My format
is tentatively called LSD (for lisp-style schema definition), so
the .lsd file in my format, and the .xsd is the standard XML format.

	-Mark

Attachment: stellstore.xsd
Description: application/applefile

Attachment: stellstore.xsd
Description: application/text

Attachment: stellstore.lsd
Description: Binary data

Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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