[Typo3-dev] Validating TypoScript - Schema vs. DTD

[Martin Kutschker]

Mark Ravitz schrieb:
> Peter Russ wrote:
> 
>> Anything you want to know to make things clear about XML and Schema 
>> can be found at www.w3c.org.
>>
>> The point I see is that developing the schemata is a vaste of time, 
>> resources and efforts. Is JAVA that popular because it can be 
>> validated? Or are there more "coders" for BASIC in the world ;-)
>>
>> Debugging TS is not that complicate. 
> 
> As an occasional user of TYPO3, having built two commercial TYPO3 web 
> sites,  I strongly disagree.

A "raw" xml won't improve matters

> Validating TS would be great, but my problems with TS would be solved if
> the TSRef was improved.  It's written in such a terse, abbreviated style 
> that I spend most of my TS development time trying understand the TS objects. 
> It would be better if the TSRef  format was changed so that there was space
> for more verbose explanations of properties and options, and if there were
> 'copy and paste' examples of everything.

I agree that TSref certainly could be improved. But TSref as the name 
implies is a refence. You're looking for tutorials.

Have you ever considered bying a book on TYPO3?

Masi