====== [Dhis2-devs] dxf format Bob Jolliffe Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:03 -0700 I've just finished a few crazy hours coding a schema to describe the current dxf format (see attached dxf.rng file). No invention - just describing what's there. I have used the RelaxNG schema language (http://www.relaxng.org/) to do this because it is nicer than W3C XML Schema and easier to write without pointy-clickety tools getting in the way :-). Nevertheless I have also attached auto-translated relaxNG compact format (.rnc) and W3C Schema (.xsd) versions. The .rng file should be considered the normative "source code" version. It is hand-crafted rather than auto-inferred. There are still a few pieces to fill in but it "works" on the few samples I have. You can use the schema to validate dxf files you might have. For example using jing (http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html): java -jar /home/bobj/java/jing-20081028/bin/jing.jar dxf.rng Export.xml Or use the .rnc or .xsd files in an xml editing environment which supports them. You do need to extract the Export.xml file from the zip first. The process of writing the schema has exposed a whole bunch of interesting issues which I will start to address shortly. But for the moment I'm sharing this as useful work in progress. Its the first step toward being able to interoperate nicely with others (there are quite a few other steps ...). When people ask what our file format is we can at least now point to the schema. Will stick this stuff on launchpad tomorrow. Regards Bob ====== dxf.nrg [http://www.mail-archive.com/dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net/msg01235/dxf.rng] dxf.nrc [http://www.mail-archive.com/dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net/msg01235/dxf.rnc] dxf.xsd [http://www.mail-archive.com/dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net/msg01235/dxf.xsd] ---- !!!!!! %| [Category Graphics] |% !!!!!!