[Linux-HA] How to validate meta-data of OCF RAs

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 7/11/07, Peter Kruse <pk at q-leap.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Max Hofer wrote:
> > 1. Use the right DTD
> > 2. use xmlstarlet to valdate the XML output of your script
> >
> > example:
> > ./your_ocf_script meta-data | xmlstarlet val ra-api-1.dtd
>
> ah! very good, I guess that's what I was looking for.
>
> >
> > The hard part is the "right" DTD. As Andrew pointed out the HA
> > Linux Project uses some non offical extension which were never updated
> > on the OCF side.
>
> urgs, not so good...
>
> > Attached a DTD which fits fine for me (make a diff against the offcial DTD
> > to see what i changed).
>
> Yes, to summarize:
>
> 1. use "monitor" instead of "status"
> 2. use "validate-all" instad of "verify-all"

there are also some new attributes for the parameter entity i believe

> But I don't understand this change:
>
> <!ELEMENT resource-agent
> (version,longdesc+,shortdesc+,parameters,actions,special?) >
>
> does that mean it should be "longdesc+" instead of "longdesc" and
> "shortdesc+" instead of "shortdesc"?

i believe so (one can have the descriptions in multiple languages)