[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: No Standard way to reference XML Schema? Was Re: (Many) XMLSchema Q
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Roger L. Costello wrote: > I read these statements as saying that there is no standard way for > specifying in an XML document what XML Schema it conforms to - every > XML Parser will have its own way of doing things. Really??? If > this is so, please, please tell me why this is a good thing. I am > struggling to appreciate its beauty. /Roger I am as puzzled as you are. Yes, it's true, as Andrew writes, that "ultimately, the processor of a document determines what processing is done" [cited as the rationale for the decision by the XML Schemas WG to demote the xsi:schemaLocation attribute to a "hint"]. The same could be said of any software, which behaves in direct response to the instructions written by its creators, rather than the prescriptions of standards. The role of a standard is to assist in the processes of predicting how software which claims conformance to it will behave, and of determining which products are actually conformant. -- Bob Kline mailto:bkline@r... http://www.rksystems.com 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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