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RE: Do Schemas Matter to .NET?

• To: "'colman@d...'" <colman@d...>, 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Do Schemas Matter to .NET?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:13:33 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Thanks Arthur.  I should explain why I asked the 
question because being an XML-Dev regular and 
a markup veteran, I do have some experience with 
schemas, DTDs, etc..  In SGML, schemas were the 
beginning of the discussion, not a sidebar.  In 
XML they are often Chapter Zed and are described 
in deprecative language.  That leaves an impression 
among recent converts to XML that they are to be 
avoided or are just a form of documentation.

I was recently handed a self-paced tutorial on .Net 
and told to run it so that I could understand 'the
Microsoft point of view on XML and web services' to 
make my discussions with developers less abstract and 
more production-oriented. ;-)  The answer Dare gave 
to my question ensured  
that it was understood that schemas are not irrelevant 
to .Net.  I realize the system library has a validator, 
but the presentation of the course material doesn't 
make much of these capabilities and leaves the impression 
among local implementors and their managers that 
XML Schemas can be safely ignored.   Such an impression  
exacts a price later when it is expensive to pay.

len

From: Arthur Colman [mailto:colman@d...]

.Net's use of schema is very convenient. There are limits to Visual
Studio's ability to easily take a schema and convert it into a dataset.
However, I would state that these limitations are more due to me taking
document oriented schema and attempting to convert it into a database
oriented schema.

So, instead of being able to convert an XML message directly into a data
store one has to do some translation. I don't think this is so much a
limitation of .Net but some growing pains associated with the tools.

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