[MOBY-dev] Martin's comments on the MOBY API docs

Tom Oinn tmo at ebi.ac.uk
Thu Sep 1 15:47:33 UTC 2005


>>    And the last (but not an unimportant) general comment: the XML-based
>> API should be expressed as DTD (which is more preferable in this context,
>> XSD is not so human readable).
> 
> 
> I think we'll need a volunteer to help us out on that - I've used 
> DTD/XSDs, but never written one. Anyone?

We've used XMLSpy in the past to produce graphical representations of 
XSD and DTD, this is generally easier to read than the textual ones. 
With some restrictions this can also be used to convert XSD to DTD 
although personally I prefer reading XSD.

Tom



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