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RE: Interesting mailing list & a rare broadside

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Interesting mailing list & a rare broadside
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:34:40 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Interesting mailing list & a rare broadside

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:21 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Interesting mailing list & a rare broadside
> 
> 
> At 05:09 PM 6/4/2002 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> >For this case, I'm not sure I see as much reason to argue with this. 
> >W3C XML Schema is already used by the W3C for its XML 
> protocol work and 
> >standardization not balkanization should be the order of the 
> day. Most 
> >of the arguments about the complexity of W3C XML Schema for 
> the average 
> >end user don't apply to Internet protocols. After all, how 
> many regular 
> >users look at SOAP messages or HTTP requests?
> 
> I'm not sure how many people read those messages directly, but I'd 
> certainly be unhappy if <bar /> got past the validator when I 
> was expecting 
> <foo /> as in Clark's point 7.

Both the XmlValidatingReader in the .NET framework and MSXML will throw
errors because no type definition exists for the <bar /> element. This
is one of the issues I'd have brought up if I was on the mailing list
and replying to JC's email. 

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