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Re: The privilege of XML parsing - Data types,binary XM L and

• To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Subject: Re: The privilege of XML parsing - Data types,binary XM L and XMLpipelines (LONG)
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: 12 Dec 2002 11:12:51 +0000
• Cc: "'Thomas B. Passin'" <tpassin@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...> writes:

> A schema defines the intent of the author.  If is so happens to coincide
> with the intent of the consumer, all the merrier.
> 
> The author is not prescient of the consumer's intent in almost all cases.
> Therefore, the intent of the author should not be given precedence over the
> consumer's by Recommendations.

Indeed -- that's why W3C XML Schema _loosened_ the binding between
document and schema, compared to XML 1.0 wrt DTDs -- an application
(read 'consumer') is free to mandate its own W3C XML Schema (or none)
in preference to whatever the author provides.  What's the problem?

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