[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] XSchema current status
I hope to provide a status report on XSchema every Monday morning, summarizing the current position of the specification's development. Please don't reply to this status report; please reply to threads regarding specific questions. We have four questions in current circulation: 1)How will XSchema use/relate to RDF? (thread Re: XSchema Question 1: RDF) We need an answer to this question so we can move into building XSchema syntax. So far, it sounds like people would like to be able to use RDF, but that RDF itself probably isn't mature (or well-documented) enough to use as the foundation of XSchema. I'll leave this open for a few more days, as I know some of the proponents of RDF are still developing suggestions. 2)How will XSchema use namespaces? (thread Re: XSchema Question 2: Namespaces) It sounds like we'll have to pick out a namespace for use in XSchemas. How XSchema namespaces will end up interacting with other namespaces remains an open question. 3)Should XSchema provide internal and external subsets, as do XML DTD's? (thread Re: XSchema Question 3: Internal/External subsets) This question has picked up some interesting life under the "Re: Entities and namespaces in XSchemata" thread. The consensus in the few messages directed at the question seems to be that XSchema shouldn't support internal/external in the _same_ manner as DTDs, and I suspect for 1.0 we'll assume a single unified XSchema. At the same time, we need to keep the doors open for the (exciting, even amazing) possibilities for the future that people are developing in this discussion. 4)Should the use of traditional DTD entity (and other) notation be encouraged in the design, development, and use of XSchemas? (thread Re: XSchema Question 4: XML 1.0/XSchema interactions) Not a lot of interest on this one. I think the XSchema specification itself will remain silent on this issue, though a separate note might point out uses of XML 1.0 tools like general entities. --------------- There are also a number of discussions going on about fragmented and compound documents, declarations and definitions, and the nature of schemata, mostly on the "Re:What are schemata" thread. I'll be building these into specific questions shortly. These are my interpretations of what I've heard. Please contact me (or the list) if you think I've heard wrong. I'll be posting these status reports on the XSchema web site (http://purl.oclc.org/NET/xschema) as a log of where we've been. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer / Cookies xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|