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At 09:14 AM 6/24/99 -0700, Steven Marcus wrote: >I need to do data typing in a java-based application using XML >-- now! So, like, write some code. >How far away are we from W3's "XML Schema" going to >"Recommendation" status? I see that it was published on May 6 >1999. My guess is that we are at least a year away and perhaps 9 >months away from some prototype implementations. These things are totally unpredictable both in theory and practice. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a flash of inspiration and shipped in September. I also wouldn't be surprised if they got stuck in some semantic tarpit and slipped to summer 2000. Sorry to be unhelpful. >It appears that translation from XML-Data Reduced to the >eventual XML Schema Recommendation stands a good chance of being >accomplished programmatically. True? Yes, but there's no guarantee at all (really) that XML schemas will be a clean superset of XDR. >Can anyone provide alternative suggestions? Yes. You're going to be writing some business-level validation logic anyhow. Check your own data types. Then when there is a solid, stable, nonproprietary schema facility with data typing, throw that part of your own validation logic away. -Tim 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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