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Re: XML spec and XSD

• From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:03:12 +0530

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> Yes, it's ugly

I personally, won't say XSD is ugly. Just saw the meaning of ugly :)
"Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace"
"Provoking horror"

I would not go to such an extent, while talking about XSD. But I
agree, that it is over engineered and over specified. But I guess,
over engineering/over specification is good for users.

> and very hard to use

Yes definitely, I agree that XSD has steep learning curve.

> and doesn't do a lot of things that people might like it to do.

Perhaps, this would get better with the 1.1 version.


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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