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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Namespaces alternative? (was Re:WD for Namespaces 1.1)
 On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 11:47, Seairth Jacobs wrote: > > If on the other hand, you look at XML as a framework for building > > diverse document structures and processing using a common set of tools, > > then the picture isn't so beautiful. Your documents may well outlive > > the tools you built for your own namespace flavor, leaving others to > > piece together what you really meant, and they may also escape the > > boundaries of your system. > > Couldn't you make the same argument about schema languages? Yet, RNG, > Schematron, etc. are still being developed and used despite facing > opposition from W3C's XML Schemas. Creating competing standards never > starts off beautifully. However, in the end, the standards either learn to > work symbiotically or one loses out to the other. You _could_ make that argument, and I know that there are lots of people saying exactly that to scare people into using W3C XML Schema without exploring the competition. At this point, however, I don't believe that WXS has put down nearly the roots that either XML 1.0 or Namespaces in XML have. IMHO, there's still a lot of time yet to run before the schema issues are genuinely settled. Namespaces have a two-year+ head start on schemas, and their complexity isn't nearly as apparent on the surface. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com 
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