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Dear XML-DEV, I'd like to draw your collective attention to the newly formed W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding WG: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/ Whose stated aim is: "to define a set of XML Schema patterns that will be efficiently implementable by the broad community who use XML databindings. Patterns which may prove useful to model include abstractions of structures common across a wide variety of programming environments, such as hash tables, vectors, and collections. There are several ways of representing such abstracted data structures and Web Services toolkits are currently using ad hoc technologies to infer the most suitable language mapping when processing XML Schemas. Agreeing on a set of XML Schema patterns for which databinding optimizations can be made will facilitate the ability of Web services and other toolkits to expose a more comprehensible data model to the developer." My expectation is that this effort will go a long way towards improving the interoperability between tools which abstract XML 'messages', whilst providing great benefit to those of us who prefer to work with XML at the 'document level' in knowing which facets of Schema are most likely to give a good experience to developers using XML databinding tools - a wide audience inside the Web services domain. I'd also remark that given the WG will be publishing in effect XML Schema 1.0 'test cases' it behoves vendors of databinding tools, especially those who purport to support "the whole of schema" to ensure their tools support the patterns published by this WG. The WG was formed about following discussions during and after the W3C Workshop on User Experiences of XML Schema 1.0: http://www.w3.org/2005/03/xml-schema-user-cfp Participation is open to W3C members (ask your AC to appoint you, consider joining if not), and technical discussions will take place on the public mailing list: public-xsd-databinding@w..., archived: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xsd-databinding/ Distributed meetings start in December with the first F2F meeting to be held 4-5th January in London. Please feel free to contact the Yves Lafon, the W3C Team Contact (ylafon@w...) or me directly if you have questions or concerns regarding this effort. Paul -- Chair W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding WG http://blog.whatfettle.com
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