[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: RELAX NG is now an International Standard

• To: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• Subject: Re: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
• From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:37:17 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., relaxng-user@r...
• Organization: The MITRE Corporation
• References: <1071488287.16090.76.camel@g...>

Thanks for the info James.  There are some folks at my company that are
"gun shy" of using ISO standards due to a "licensing fee" they impose
(see following message).  What are your thoughts on this?

A message from one of my colleagues:

> Remember that ISO has tried to impose a licensing fee on use of 
> their country code standard. Given that sad effort, I would 
> advise against use of any ISO standard if there was a viable 
> alternative. If they can do it for country codes, they can 
> impose licensing fees for use of any of their standards, 
> e.g., Relax-NG.

A second question: what implementations are there of RELAX NG?

/Roger


James Clark wrote:
> 
> I have just been informed that RELAX NG was published by ISO as an
> International Standard on 1st December 2003.  The full title is:
> 
> ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003
> Information technology -- Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) --
> Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation -- RELAX NG
> 
> Its ISO Catalogue entry is:
> 
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=37605
> 
> The text of the published standard is unfortunately not freely
> available.  However, the FDIS text remains available from the SC34
> Chairman's site:
> 
> http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0362_files/relaxng-is.pdf
> 
> The only differences I have found between the FDIS text and the
> published standard are that the Foreword is slightly different and the
> cover page, headers and footers have been changed in accordance with its
> change in status.  Even the pagination appears to be identical.
> 
> James
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an
> initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org>
> 
> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription
> manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
  • Re: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
    • From: jcowan@r...
  • RE: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
    • From: "Chris Angus" <chris.angus@b...>

• References:
  • RELAX NG is now an International Standard
    • From: James Clark <jjc@j...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Does XQuery support updates?
• Next by Date: RE: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
• Previous by thread: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
• Next by thread: RE: RELAX NG is now an International Standard
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread