• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>,<michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: RE: Who can implement W3C XML Schema ?
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:45:03 -0800
• Cc: "Atchley John" <John.Atchley@f...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Who can implement W3C XML Schema ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: michael.h.kay@n...
> Cc: 'Atchley John'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Who can implement W3C XML Schema ?
> 
> 
> Michael Kay scripsit:
> 
> > Yes. I think Schema has definitely fallen into the trap of 
> being too 
> > formal.
> 
> Formal != obscure.  The RELAX NG specification is quite 
> formal, but not at all obscure; indeed, one can for the most 
> part skip the formal parts and still make sense of it.
> 

Agreed. It doesn't get much formal than relational algebra yet we have
highschoolers and college freshmen writing relational database apps with
little problems. I don't think I'll ever be able to say the same for XML
Schema. 

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