[mcswell]

Does Serna (either free or enterprise) validate against RelaxNG schemas?

We edit DocBook 5 documents, to which we have made a few modifications to support some additional structures. I originally wrote our modified schema in W3C, but grew increasingly frustrated with that. When I converted to RelaxNG, it was like a breath of fresh air. I would hate to go back to the W3C schema.

[cherdn]

Serna does not support RelaxNG.
But as Serna Free is open source now, everybody can force Serna to support it.

[mcswell]

Yes, but:
1) we're interested in the enterprise edition (we require svn/webdav server support), and
2) support for RelaxNG is a necessity for us.

[timof]

Originally Posted by mcswell

Yes, but:
1) we're interested in the enterprise edition (we require svn/webdav server support), and
2) support for RelaxNG is a necessity for us.

We can do a priority feature development for you. As soon as a custom feature will be a part of generally available Serna Enterprise, you will be charged only for a fraction of the development costs. Please contact us at sales@syntext.com if you interested in this service.

[dcramer]

Are there tools that convert RelaxNG to W3C schema? Perhaps you could create a w3c verison from your RelaxNG schema using a tool. I believe that's how Serna supports DTDs. You convert the DTD and then configure Serna to use the schema when it sees a certain public identifier in the DOCTYPE.

[timof]

Originally Posted by dcramer

Are there tools that convert RelaxNG to W3C schema? Perhaps you could create a w3c verison from your RelaxNG schema using a tool. I believe that's how Serna supports DTDs. You convert the DTD and then configure Serna to use the schema when it sees a certain public identifier in the DOCTYPE.

Try this conversion tool by James Clark:
http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html