Once upon a time the XMLField accepted a schema and validated documents against that. This hasn't been true since oldforms, yet the documentation continues to proclaim this. Now, XMLField is basically a TextField that takes an extra path argument. It's useless, and doesn't validate anything.
We need to either deprecate it, provide some validation, or fix the docs to say it doesn't do anything. We can't fix the docs till we have a decision on this ticket.
Please weight in here or on the ticket. I'll write the patch for whatever gets chosen.
> Once upon a time the XMLField accepted a schema and validated > documents against that. This hasn't been true since oldforms, yet the > documentation continues to proclaim this. Now, XMLField is basically a > TextField that takes an extra path argument. It's useless, and doesn't > validate anything.
> We need to either deprecate it, provide some validation, or fix the > docs to say it doesn't do anything. We can't fix the docs till we have > a decision on this ticket.
> Please weight in here or on the ticket. I'll write the patch for > whatever gets chosen.
> Thanks, > -Paul
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I'd favor having the field do nothing, emit a warning, and eventually be scrapped. It's adding nothing ATM and no one is crying.
Alex
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Paul McMillan <p...@mcmillan.ws> wrote: > We need to either deprecate it, provide some validation, or fix the > docs to say it doesn't do anything. We can't fix the docs till we have > a decision on this ticket.
I say deprecate the field entirely. There isn't a good stdlib way to validate XML (still!), so let's ditch it in favor of a 3rd party solution.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Paul McMillan <p...@mcmillan.ws> wrote: >> We need to either deprecate it, provide some validation, or fix the >> docs to say it doesn't do anything. We can't fix the docs till we have >> a decision on this ticket.
> I say deprecate the field entirely. There isn't a good stdlib way to > validate XML (still!), so let's ditch it in favor of a 3rd party > solution.
