[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
Yep. Or those that like to roll their own at every step of use of the XML, or those that have alternatives (eg, different schema systems). On the other hand, I quite like the ability to check value spaces and to use XML Schema to specify them. It is a proven way to control distributed loosely coupled developers and as a means to authoritatively reference a requirement. But Simon asks a pertinent point: who bears the costs for unused features? The developer? The framework developer? This becomes a nasty problem for buying and using tools. XML 1.0 is core. The skunkworks document is a good proposition for what gets used most often, XPath and XSLT are great tools, but XML 1.0 is core. I consider everything else including namespaces and DOM as system features, good for those that need them and yes, vital for most successes, but not core. At the root, XML is just a syntax with an optional validation language (the DTD). len -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...] I suspect much of this argument is between people who merely use XML as a transport and serialization technology, and those who actually do processing of XML that involves some knowledge of the types involved.
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