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Re: RELAX NG Marketing

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• Subject: Re: RELAX NG Marketing
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:37:27 -0500
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[Jeff Lowery]

> Inelegant as appinfo cardinality annotations may be, I have suggested
three
> alternatives, none of which are being accepted with open arms:
>
> 1) add a constraint to the data model that requires children to be
ordered.
> (I have sympathy for those who wish not to enforce artificial constraints
on
> their data model.)
> 2) Use RELAX-NG + XSD datatypes. (Politically incorrect.)
> 3) Fix the cardinality definitions in the XSD schema and use an XSLT
> transform to order children prior to validation.  (Seems simplest, but
> what's the performance hit for a large document? Maybe Tom Passin can
answer
> that one.).
>

Aha, payback time, eh, Jeff?  The smallest performance hit would be to use
an xslt stylesheet to reorder the __schema__, not the data (after all, they
want to allow any order, right?)!

Cheers,

Tom P

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