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Re: Announce: XML Schema, The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptio

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• Subject: Re: Announce: XML Schema, The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:50:00 -0700
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> As Clark's message is being passed along working 
> groups like a grassfire, the assertions that XML Schema is 
> hard, incomplete, inadequate, somehow not right, are being 
> accepted uncritically in many venues based on the source.
> 
> That is not a good thing.

On the contrary, it's an unalloyed good thing.  We have moved from a 
situation in which nobody in the world had ever heard of any schema 
facility other than XSD to a situation in which we are having widespread 
and quite enlightening discussions about pros and cons and trade-offs 
and options.  This is a major win.

And yes, it needed a fairly large-caliber cannon blast to alert the 
world that there are some issues here.   Sometimes you have to dump tea 
in the harbor to launch a debate about taxation structure.  -Tim

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