[DAS2] initial schemas and using a template

[Allen Day]

> I would like it if the HTML documentation and the XML
> schema were more closely tied together.  What I
> propose is to move the description of the different
> fields into the XML schema, as noted above.  I would
> then write a program to convert the XML form into
> HTML that could be inserted into the documentation.
> 
> Most likely this means using some sort of template/
> string substitution to put everything together.
> And a makefile to merge them.
> 
> This would also help me develop a validator for the
> data files in the spec itself.  Eg in my testing
> today I fixed two typos in the examples.  What I
> can do is pull the XML and tab-delimited files
> out of the HTML and into separate files.  These
> can be tested standalone and the template can say
> "insert file ABC here".
> 
> Sound good to you all?

This sounds wonderful!

-Allen