• To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Sti ll missing Updates
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@s...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:47:15 -0500
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020103094935.01de62e0@s...>
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At 09:55 AM 1/3/2002 +0000, Sean McGrath wrote:

>Its also getting buzz because you can fire it up in Emacs or Windows Notepad
>grok it, change it and so on. You don't need any GUI tool. This is not to say
>that GUI tools are not desirable for RelaxNG. The critical issue is that they
>are "nice to haves" not "must haves". When we get into visual
>tool "must haves" as we are in some ares of XML standards work we are
>in dangerous waters because the visualizations are not part of the 
>standards - therefore
>vendors create different visualizations. If the visualization *becomes* 
>the notation, no
>amount of XML syntax for persistence will save you from the subltle, slow 
>squeeze
>of embrace and extend.

I agree.

It also doesn't help that none of the visual tools support all of XML 
Schema. You need a GUI tool to write schemas, but the GUI tool does not 
support all of XML Schema.

Jonathan

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