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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
 Francis Norton wrote: >XSD types are great for Web Service (program-to-program) use cases in my >opinion - you get the choice of specifying language-level types (eg >xs:byte) where appropriate, or application-specific (eg xs:long, with >maxExclusive and minInclusive) where more appropriate. And for >human-to-human use cases, you can just leave them all as strings if >that's the functionality you want. So what's the problem? Hmm when we start talking XSD types with Web Services I get really wary, I'm getting burned out here with my own personal dislikes of XSDL I certainly don't want to get started on a thread where everyone starts arguing WSDL. *shudder* I think a lot of my problem has to do with what I consider my personal responsibility as an "xml dialect maker", and a lot of this personal responsibility is tied up with personal views about development etc. that I could not clearly enunciate here, maybe not in many years of trying. But I would say that the personal responsibility I feel comes partly from the marketing of Xml Schema founded dialects where someone talks all about how data will be validated etc. and thus you are never going to end up with bad data; obviously never bad data is big promise but someone having made it and people naively expecting it I feel it incumbent upon me to do my best to provide it. And this is what bugs me with this huge specification is that for all the talk of validation and datatypes rolling your own datatypes is so hard once you get past the trivial examples of restricting numerical ranges, or string content to a sequence of xsd:enumeration values, that people just leave the hard stuff as a string. And that leaves me obsessively trying to restrict that string to something passable with a long-ass regular expression for days on end. :( And anyhow I guess now I'm starting to repeat myself way too much cause I made some of these observations when I first entered this thread, and probably the only conclusion is to, as someone suggested some days back, get out the good word about RELAX-NG about which I have a sad anecdote to relate: Recently my boss received an email, passed on from a business partner who was passing it on from a friend of his in New Zealand who wanted to switch all their old dtds to Xml Schema and wanted some pointers. I pointed to the beginning of the Xml Schema considered harmful thread, pointed to a bunch of other Schema resources, went into depth as to what the benefits of RELAX-NG and Schematron were to my mind as opposed to XSDL and so forth. Well for reasons that I think are partly political I believe most of my RELAX-NG and Schematron stuff was cut from the finalized communication, in the interest supposedly of not overwhelming the poor guy trying to come to grips with Xml Schema, who I suppose will now be overwhelmed by attempting to come to grips with Xml Schema. 
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