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RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?
• From: Betty Harvey <harvey@e...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:32:36 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E06621D8D@r...>

That doesn't really answer my question.  Maybe I phrased it wrong.  Is
a W3C Schema required in order to use XQuery.  I would imagine that
Oracle and other XML aware database will allow DTD's for validing and
importing and exporting XML data in and out.

I can include the W3C datatypes within a DTD, an XML parser just won't
validate that the datatypes are valid using an 'off the shelf' XML parser.

A lot of documents don't require datatyping (although they are nice to
have they aren't imperative).

Does XQuery require a W3C Schema?  Does XQuery care?  Can I use the
datatyping and validating capability within my database of choice
if it supports XQuery.

If I currently have a DTD and thousands possibly millions of XML documents
that conform to this DTD, why should I care about converting my DTD to W3C
Schema just to use XQuery?

Hope this clarifies the question.

Betty

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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> The quote from the XQuery working draft seems pretty clear to me.
>
> I see no mention of RELAX NG in the XQuery WD and the only reference to
> DTDs is in issue 43 which is supposedly handled in the yet to be seen
> "Named Typing Proposal"
>
> PS: XML-DEV has already done the W3C XML Schema and XML Query dance.
> Read all about it at
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200205/threads.html with over 200
> posts about XSD, XSLT, XPath 2.0 and XQuery.
>
>

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