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-schemas that can be used for validating ODF files
+# Schemas for Validating ODF Files
+
+Schemas that can be used for validating ODF files
subdirs:
-- mathml2: W3C MathML 2.0 XML Schema (needed for Math embedded objects)
-- odf1.0, odf1.1, odf1.2: official OASIS RelaxNG schemas
-- odf1.3: current OASIS draft ODF 1.3 RelaxNG schema
-- libreoffice: draft ODF schema, with additional LO extensions
-The extension schema in "libreoffice/" is used by all unit tests if
---with-export-validation is given, which is the default.
+- `mathml2`: W3C MathML 2.0 XML Schema (needed for Math embedded objects)
+- `odf1.0`, `odf1.1`, `odf1.2`: official OASIS RelaxNG schemas
+- `odf1.3`: current OASIS draft ODF 1.3 RelaxNG schema
+- `libreoffice`: draft ODF schema, with additional LO extensions
+
+The extension schema in `libreoffice/` is used by all unit tests if
+`--with-export-validation` is given, which is the default.
Notably this means that if you add a new feature to the ODF filters and you add
the required unit test for the new feature, then most likely the test will fail
with a complaint from the validator; in this case the schema needs to be
updated to contain the new elements and attributes.
-The extension schema uses the RelaxNG "include" feature to refer to the ODF
+The extension schema uses the `RelaxNG` "`include`" feature to refer to the ODF
schema; this means that it only contains those parts of the schema that
actually need to be changed - this works well in many cases because the ODF
schema is quite well structured with many named patterns, but unfortunately
@@ -22,7 +25,7 @@ there are a few places where that isn't the case and large chunks needed to be
copied to override them.
In the easy case, to add an attribute you just want to search for the
-corresponding element, which will have a "foo-attlist" named pattern, and then
+corresponding element, which will have a "`foo-attlist`" named pattern, and then
add another attribute like this:
<rng:define name="draw-enhanced-geometry-attlist" combine="interleave">
@@ -42,6 +45,6 @@ Unfortunately it turned out that there are a lot of extensions already for
which no proposal exists [1], and in many cases not even an entry on the Wiki
[2], so clearly something like this extension schema is needed.
-[1] git grep TODO schema/libreoffice
-[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_Extensions
+[1] `git grep TODO schema/libreoffice`
+[2] <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_Extensions>