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On 22 May 2001 11:34:23 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote: > > > As I understand it, schema-supporting functions would work on a PSVI. > > If the extension functions were defined in terms of the PSVI, then the > > schema language (or rather the schema syntax) that we used would be > > independent. For example, we could come up with a simplified syntax > > that used the same conceptual schema components as those used in XML > > Schema, which would create a PSVI that holds the same information. > > sure. what we still need is a processable incarnation of the "PSVI". no such > thing exists today. you are basically saying that "if we had an API which > provides access to the information in the PSVI then we could easily do > this." Better still, a usable XML representation of the PSVI. Then we could use existing XML tools on the PSVI without needing to add all kinds of PSVI-only tools to the system. I'd really like to have a viable route that isn't an API...
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