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Rationale Behind The PSVI

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  • Subject: Rationale Behind The PSVI
  • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 03:21:16 -0700
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  • Thread-topic: Rationale Behind The PSVI

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I know I could just ask this of our schema folks at MS but I think this deserves public debate. I am truly curious about the purpose of the PSVI. The XML infoset I can understand was an attempt to create a baseline data model for XML documents so each spec wouldn't go ahead and reinvent its own (like we have now with DOM & XPath).
 
The PSVI on the other hand doesn't strike me as useful in that manner. Like the W3C XML Schema recommendation which spawned it, it conflates many different issues into one entity including as type information,validation information and default information. However, the PSVI is designed in a manner that is cumbersome for anyone to expose fully either in a push or pull based parser model or in an object model like the DOM or XPath/XQuery.
 
Secondly it is difficult, nigh impossible to effectively serialize.
 
So what exactly is the point of the PSVI as it stands in the W3C XML Schema recommendation?
 
PS: Please when responding don't confuse the concept of an infoset augmented with type information with the PSVI they are similar but different things.
 
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