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RE: Relax NG Projects

• To: 'John Cowan' <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: Relax NG Projects
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:16:23 -0500
• Cc: catcode@c..., xml-dev@l...

RELAX is a good compromise.  On the other hand, 
well... enough said about that hand.... urrggg, 
just a little off and we would have been into 
a shoot out!  RATS!

As soon as we said "well-formed", we opened the 
door to multiple schema application languages, and 
unless we really blow it, pluggable datatypes. 
As I write this, I am sitting here writing a 
Visual Foxpro application that creates a database 
of metadata for our application db schema.  It 
kicks out HTML on one button, and soon, a query 
generator source on the other.   Multiple database 
backends and multiple slightly different datatypes 
that have to be mapped back and forth are pretty 
much a feature of the real world and we handle 
them without too much effort.   I don't see 
why having multiple XML schema application languages 
is such a big deal for some.

I fully understand anyone being unhappy about there 
being only one annointed for that.  Web architecture 
is not a mandate to flatten out all computer systems 
and information science into one URIzed fair haired 
favorite.  Consortia be advised; best practice and 
one sized fits all have a mighty chasm between them.

len

From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:

> Is that wise?  IMO, XML Schema should be taught to students 
> who are about to enter a world where a healthy percentage 
> of what they will be asked to code will be in relational 
> or object-oriented databases, and where the tool support 
> for XML Schemas is already in place and advanced.   

People used to say that about teaching Basic.  Schools went
overboard and taught Pascal instead.  Java is a good compromise.

So is RELAX NG.

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