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Re: DOM AS and RELAX?

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• Subject: Re: DOM AS and RELAX?
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:11:03 -0500

3/28/2002 4:49:10 PM, Fredrik Lindgren <fredrik.lindgren@c...> wrote:


>My main concern are the parts related to modification of schemas and 
>their impact on the whole design. What is discomforting is that 
>something called Abstract Schemas has constants, methods and attributes 
>that gives the impression of being a union of known schema constructs 
>rather than the intersection. 

You're right ... it is pretty much the intersection, or basically DTD
functionality the details of the underlying schema language 
abstracted away.  

>The specified types of content models are a union of the ones for DTDs 
>and XML Schema. In DTDs we have AS_CHOICE and AS_SEQUENCE. XML Schema 
>has these and adds AS_ALL. As far as I can see some patterns that are 
>available in RELAX NG such as interleave can not be supported.

The idea of using a string/URI to represent a wider range of options
makes sense to me.  I'll bring it up ...

>Apart from RELAX NG having a problem with this DTD centric model I can't 
>say that it's obvious how a Schematron based schema would fit into the 
>model either.

No, it's not :~) That was clearly not in scope a couple of years ago when
the DOM AS work was begun, and I'm not sure that any useable abstraction
COULD cover DTDs, RELAX, XSD, and Schematron.  Ideas, anyone?

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