some relevant links on this subject: www.trl.ibm.com/projects/xml/xss4j/docs/axt-readme.html cheers, Abdella
Frank Strauss wrote:
Hi!
Mark> I agree that XSL and XML are grate tools, and personaly I Mark> believe that the evolotion of SMI should be into an XML Mark> format. Of course when MIBs will be written in XML there will no Mark> loner be a need for the libsmi ;-)
Mark> However, right now I'm so glad that I can get an XML out of an Mark> SMI, and work on the XML with all the variety of tools that Mark> exists in the XML world, that I fail to see any real reason for Mark> anybody to go the other way around. Do I miss anything, Mark> something that I'm not aware of?
Other people might say, we already have the SMI for more than a decade, why should we change things that worked not too bad in the past?! Switching to a new technology must bring reasonable *advantages*. It's not enough to say the existing technology is not better than the proposed new technology.
Mark> The only "real world" XSL tranformation that I can think of Mark> right now is converting the output of smidump to XHTML in order Mark> to display it in a browser with syntax coloring, links for Mark> imports and probably more.
Do you know about the MIB repository at the SimpleWeb?!
http://www.simpleweb.org/ietf/mibs/Mark> The first step for accomplishing this IMHO is to define a scheme Mark> or dtd for the XML generated by smidump. I don't remember seeing Mark> any in the libsmi files,.
We have made slight attempts to write a DTD (draft-irtf-nmrg-smi-xml-00.txt) and later an XML Schema, but we did not follow this approach til the end. However, I agree that, *if* people would put all eggs in the XML basket, standardized XML MIB representation and MIB data representation should be the first step.
Mark> I'm attaching an XML schema file generated by automatic tool Mark> from the RMON2 XML, It probably needs refinement but it might Mark> serve as a starting point for a complete schema.
Feel free to go on... ;-)
-frank
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