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RE: ZDNet Schema article,and hiding complexity withinuser-friendlyproduc

• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:29:12 -0400

> To be fair, in my working world, until MSXML 4.0, 
> XML Schema could only be a research topic.  Now it 
> can become a tool.  

Ahhh, but how will you use it? The assumption I've seen
people make it that it'll be part of every pipeline.

That's about as far from the truth as it can get...

>The interesting application is not validation but 
>generation of support systems from the schema.

Right. A major value of schemas is as a tool to make
tools. 

I may/probably will use XSchemas to validate
the correctness of my application. I most likely
will not use XSchemas to validate my content (except
in some very specific domains).
 

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