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Re: Objections to / uses of PSVI?

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• Subject: Re: Objections to / uses of PSVI?
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 07:45:05 -0400
• References: <3CE193C0.7290457C@r...> <1021444276.1421.112.camel@ibook>

[Eric van der Vlist]

> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 00:46, Ronald Bourret wrote:
> > I am having trouble understanding two things in this entire discussion:
> .../...
> > Am I missing anything else here?
>
> Yes, I think so. Using the PSVI (at least with the current
> underspecification of its API and|or serialization) implies defining a
> W3C XML Schema for all your documents and some applications may want or
> need to use other schema languages or no schema at all.
>
> Except for DBMS which *requires* a schema definition for their physical
> storage, this requirement to write a formal definition of the data
> structures outside the applications is quite unique IMO and I am not
> even sure that this approach can be successfull or even if it is
> something that we should wish.

ASN.1 requires external schemas so that data structures can be coded.  CORBA
requires IDL.

Cheers,

Tom P

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