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

Re: W3C XML Schema Test Collection

• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: W3C XML Schema Test Collection
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:03:30 +1100
• References: <D7155AD41ECFD511AF4A00B0D0202CB51DFF7C@MAILHOST>

From: "Michael Brennan" <Michael_Brennan@A...>


> This is one area where Schematron shines. 

Definitely.

> However, I will say that I think it would be great if we had some
> lightweight standards for specific annotations that could be used to support
> tools -- e.g. tooltip text, diagnostic messages for invalid constructs, and
> XLinks pointing to documentation. 

The trouble with xs:documentation is that there are no conventions for
whether to put plain text or html in there.

This gives us a half-baked system that relies on tool makers to do the right
thing.  The right thing seems to be that schema systems should cope with
each of the following cases:
   i) xs:documentation is a form of html:p
   ii) xs:documentation is a form of xhtml:div
   iii) xs:documentation contains some proprietary elements

Personally, I think ii) is the best convention. But I see many schemas that
just stick in simple text comments.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

• References:
  • RE: W3C XML Schema Test Collection
    • From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>

• Prev by Date: Using Xerces C++ Libraries
• Next by Date: RE: [ANNOUNCE] MSXML 4 SP1 Available
• Previous by thread: RE: W3C XML Schema Test Collection
• Next by thread: RE: W3C XML Schema Test Collection
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread