[PATCH] XML Policy

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Monday 21 February 2005 23:17, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Monday 21 February 2005 21:09, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >
> > You named it "policy", try again with something like "Design
> > guidelines for XML formats", that's less threatening :-)
>
> Yes, I suspect that's the problem too :)

I don't think so. It's the content of the document which doesn't really 
help, regardless of the name.

It contains formalities (e.g. the RFC references), but not much content 
than some made-up rules (e.g. the capitalization rules for tag names or 
the requirement of an XML Schema).

As said before, that's not how KDE works. You can't create a theoretical 
policy and then claim that KDE should follow it. The only way in KDE to 
create a policy is to carefully look at what actually has emerged as 
best practices and document this. Anything else is a waste of time and 
effort.

If you want to do something about XML in KDE then go and work on the 
code using XML, write schemas, schema documentation, XML tools. That 
would be much more beneficial to KDE than trying to create a policy 
from nothing.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>