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Re: Relax NG and Web Services (formerly Joining the church)

• To: <AndrewWatt2000@a...>
• Subject: Re: Relax NG and Web Services (formerly Joining the church)
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:58:07 +1000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <12c.2df2d046.2c3fcc82@a...>

Well, the recent WSDL 1.2 draft you mention actually specifically mentions RELAX NG:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030611/#other-schemalang

"A RELAX NG schema may be used as the schema language for WSDL."

It also mentions DTDs. Where is the problem?

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <AndrewWatt2000@a...>
To: <ricko@a...>
Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: Re:  Relax NG and Web Services (formerly Joining the church)


> In a message dated 11/07/2003 09:04:41 GMT Daylight Time, 
> ricko@a... writes:
> 
> > On the first point: WSDL part 1 allows use of other schema languages.
> > 
> > " WSDL recognizes the need for rich type systems for describing message 
> > formats, 
> > and supports the XML Schemas specification (XSD) as its canonical type 
> > system. 
> > However, since it is unreasonable to expect a single type system grammar to 
> > be used 
> > to describe all message formats present and future, WSDL allows using other 
> > type 
> > definition languages via extensibility."
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-wsdl-20010315
> 
> Rick,
> 
> As is typically the case a W3C Note does not imply endorsement by W3C.
> 
> Do you have a more up to date or normative document to quote on this point?
> 
> There is a delightfully Kafka-esque piece of prose in Chapter 3 of <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030611/#eii-types">
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030611/#eii-types</A> which indicates that any schema 
> language is supported if it is defined but then goes on to say that only XSD 
> is defined. So, practically speaking, only XSD is supported. Or is my reading 
> of the Kafka-esque prose letting me down?
> 
> Andrew Watt
>

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