XML/DTD

The DTDs are @ http://www.consumerium.org/XML/DTD/filename.dtd

I know, we should set up an CVS, this is a mess and not good browsing/editing at the moment. Please bear with us. If you want to contribute new DTDs please email them to [1]

We should propably set up pages for discussing each DTD, it's requirements and what needs it serves, with references to Features.

Functioning

• http://www.consumerium.org/XML/DTD/common_datatypes.dtd - common datatypes used by other DTDs by importing reference to this DTD
• http://www.consumerium.org/XML/DTD/company.dtd - For describing companies
• http://www.consumerium.org/XML/DTD/country.dtd - For describing countries

Not functioning, under construction

• http://www.consumerium.org/XML/DTD/common_data_structures.dtd - this is maybe not functioning, I'm a newbie to XML

• XML/DTD/product_group.dtd I've done some work on product_group.dtd, but it's not working. I'm thinking that product_group-nodes could be arranged to multiple trees (production tree, product substitution tree) and directed networks to reflect the different roles of a product_group in different contexts.

Long-term important, please review

• http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/spacetime_DTD (This is necessary for automatic relation mapping and )
• http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecoregion_DTD (This is a great idea and has to be implemented for Cium)
• http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/person_DTD (This type of thing totally freaks me out and so it does many other w:wikipedians and it's way overkill for cium)

These three are necessary for non-obvious reasons. Ecoregion is critical since an export of exactly the same consumer good from one ecological region may be harmless or even constructive, while an export of the same good from another may be devastating, e.g. exporting water from arid regions versus those with icebergs, e.g. exporting pulp wood from tropical forests versus managed temperate tree farms, e.g. cattle living on former deforested rainforest land versus natural pasture.

Spacetime is critical to match suppliers and buyers of non-offensive goods in space and time, without which, buyers may have no choice but to buy offensive goods.

Also, if these DTDs are not standard with large scale data sources like wikipedia and all other projects using the GNU GFDL, they will not be used to maximum extent, and the information available will be limited or flawed. Thus early standardization of these tags is extremely important to consumerium.