[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: PSVI

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:16:48 -0500

At 10:09 AM 3/7/2001 -0800, Ronald Bourret wrote:
>But what if I want things like attribute defaults or data types but
>don't care about validation? Can I get these?

Heh.  You could create XSLT style sheets which added xsi:type attributes or 
attribute values all over the place, but that's not likely to be processed 
by most parsers in current processing models.

>It would be nice if the PSVI was factored into multiple categories (e.g.
>defaults, type information, validation information) and parsers could
>implement these separately, with applications choosing what they needed.

I'd love to see that, but I'm not holding my breath!  A reasonably clear 
well-formed XML representation of the PSVI might help with some of it, though.


Simon St.Laurent
Associate Editor
O'Reilly and Associates

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: PSVI
    • From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...>

• References:
  • Re: PSVI
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
  • Re: PSVI
    • From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>

• Prev by Date: [Fwd: XML Schema Implementation of Dublin Core]
• Next by Date: Re: PSVI
• Previous by thread: Re: PSVI
• Next by thread: Re: PSVI
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread