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Re: Enlightenment via avoiding the T-word

• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:43:35 +0100

Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...> writes:

> Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
> > Yes, but as validation and typing are tightly bound in terms of algorithm,
> > why not perform them both in the same path, for the sheer sake of efficiency
> > ? When validating, you collect a lot of useful data (you know what XSDL
> > types you are matching against elements), so why no keep this information in
> > a PSVI to give it to the next layer ?
> 
> >From my reading of the schema spec, this is what a validator does. My
> point is that it would be nice if the PSVI was clearly factored so I
> could write a processor to just add type information without performing
> validation. This would be much cheaper and would be useful in
> applications where I trusted the source of my documents.

What factoring of the PSVI would you like that isn't already there
implicitly?  The W3C XML Schema REC defines a number of properties for
use by conformant schema-validators.  It is already open to you to
make provide a subset of those properties of your own choosing in the
output of some non-validating processor that you write.  If a
downstream app needs only your properties, then it can run either on
top of a conformant schema-validator, or on top of your processor.

That's the whole point of the Infoset abstraction -- it provides a
vocabulary for specifying application profiles, that is, what
processors supply or require in the way of information about XML
documents.

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