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Correct. XML is just a syntax. Schemas at the next level lock in vocabularies. Then come the semantics of the process. For .NET to work, XML must work As Specified. Even if he has some illusion of poobahness, his own code won't work interoperably without that. MS is just as much internally tied to the spec (intramurally) as we are. But that is the game we are all playing. For me, today, the most important issue is the functionality of MSXML 4.n because the food chain starts there. True for me, and probably a few gazillion others. Like it or not, one of the most helpful things one can do for XML In General right now is test and proof that dll because a LOT of schemas and semantics will be built over it. For example, all tests performed so far says the current beta doesn't support <unique>. That's one. Others? We have to find out because we are racing to build schemas as fast as we can. Schemas are the worms that make the spice and as the Guilder said: "The spice must flow." Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@p...] I used to think that big guys would play embrace and extend with their XML parsers but this was very stupid of me. The only game in town is to fall over yourself in your efforts to conform to the W3C standards because a) the real money is further up the food chain and b) beaming about your standards compliance deflects attention from where the real action is. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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