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Re: modeling, validating and documenting an xml grammar


Re:  modeling
At 8:30 PM -0400 6/18/03, Thomas B. Passin wrote:


>Just because a student is not supposed to be taking more than 7 classes does
>not seem to me to be a good reason for forcing the XML file describing one's
>actual class schedule to contain a max of seven (or eight) <class> elements.

Actually, I claim that's a good argument for not assuming the 
document adheres to the schema. The schema may indicate what is 
expected, but I prefer the documents to indicate what is real.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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