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Michael Kay writes: >>I meant the barfing semantics. Valid was clearly a poor >>choice of words. > >This is going to get worse. Perhaps we should use: > >well-formed: as defined in XML 1.0 (loosely, matching tags >etc) > >valid: as defined in XML 1.0 (loosely, conforms to its own >DTD) > >conforms to XYZ: conforms to the rules of standard XYZ (e.g. >XML-Namespace). This may of course be an >application-oriented (anti-barfing) standard > >obeys ABC: conforms to the constraints specified in XSchema >ABC This is a great start; as I revise the XSchema sections I'll try to make sure these terms are used _consistently_. >These are predicates that can be applied to any XML document >including, of course, an XSchema. For an XSchema [document] >to be conformant to the XSchema standard if must be >well-formed, it must be valid under the XSchema DTD, and it >must meet additional constraints described in the text of >the XSchema standard. Here I disagree. I don't want to conflate validation against a DTD with checking (verification? still fishing for a good word) against an XSchema. The process is similar, but not identical. I also need terms to describe the piece of software that checks a document against an XSchema. So far I've been fumbling with XSchema processor; Verifier or something else might be better. >An interesting question: is it an objective to allow all >[reasonable] "conformance" rules for an application to be >expressed as XSchema constraints? I'd like to think so; at least in part that's why there's that crazy XSC:More element for application designers to experiment with. 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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