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Re: modeling, validating and documenting an xml grammar

• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: Re: modeling, validating and documenting an xml grammar
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:39:26 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <00a401c335fa$02739050$6401a8c0@tbp1>

> Even in a case like that, somewhere you or software would have to decide
> what to do in case there were more records than the form could hold.  That
> cannot be done with the information in the schema anyway.  So why bother
> putting the constraint into the schema in the first case?  It doesn't really
> solve the problem it is there to handle.

I am in awe of the hubris of folks who can make such generalizations.

"Trust me, if you try to strictly define your data, then your software
will [expletive deleted]."

Wow.

Perhaps folks really mean "this is the final straw, making XSD so
complex that as validation-implementors we cannot stand for it."
But that is not what they've been saying.

        /r$

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