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Hello again - I'm afraid that moving and then driving an extra 700 miles wiped me out considerably more than I expected, which is why this has been an extremely quiet week with regard to XSchema. More is certainly on the way; my head is clearing and I no longer see road markings flying past when I close my eyes. We have some extremely large issues to deal with, primarily on the nested vs. rule-based debate. The spec as it is written now uses nested structures to represent XSchemas. Paul Prescod and Peter Murray-Rust have both suggested the use of rule-based syntax much like that used by XSL. This has three significant advantages in my mind: 1) Developers can reuse the structures they're creating for XSL. 2) Authors don't need to relearn the wheel when approaching XSL or XSchema. 3) The rule-based syntax seems easier to extend. The disadvantages as I see them are: 1) The current spec and its outline will need significant revision and reorganization. 2) I suspect the rule-based systems are a bit less intuitive than nested structures for beginners. 3) We have no proposed DTD for a rule-based system. 4) We have until June 30 to finish this spec. I have time this week (finally) to address these issues, if people feel they are worthwhile. Otherwise, I'll keep working on the spec as it stands. 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...)
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