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 Hi
all,
I wanted to submit
you a question.
Could it be a good
idea that schemas (in general) give informations in order to compare Xml
documents?
Precisely, today,
it's not possible to compare nicely two documents knowing that they are
validated by the same schema.
For example
:
Schemas give ordering
informations on different tags, I can specify that tags <b> are before
tags <c> in tag <a>.
Eventually I can
specify that tags <e> are ordered by the "att1" attribute of tag
<e> in tags <d>.
What if I want to
compare the to following documents :
1)
<Winners>
<Player
name="Bob"/>
<Player
name="Wil"/>
</Winners>
2)
<Winners>
<Player
name="Wil"/> <Player
name="Bob"/></Winners>
Are they identical
or different?
I would want to have
the possibility to say : in tag <Winners> the tags <Player> are
ordered (so the two documents are not the same), or the tags <Player> are
unordered (so the two documents are the same).
Should those
informations (comparison infos) be in a "comparison" schema rather than merged
in the validating schema?
Anyone knows about
such a "comparison" schema standard spec existing?
Thanks,
Pierre 
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