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Re: Restrictions on existence of attributes?

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• Subject: Re: Restrictions on existence of attributes?
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:00:49 +0200
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Le jeudi 29 juin 2006 à 20:28 -0700, Michael Champion a écrit :
> Jirka Kosek wrote:
> >
> > Everyone who works with RELAX NG (at least in my experience) will tell 
> > you that he/she didn't have any problems with it. The only problem is 
> > that big vendors for some reason doesn't want to add support for 
> > another schema language into their toolkits. This means that RELAX NG 
> > is now used mainly only by informed experts, but not by masses of 
> > developers.
> >
> Well, as a person at a big vendor who has the job of tracking the status 
> / mindshare / demand for various XML specs, I can tell you the reason:  
> Almost no demand by actual paying customers. This is not FUD;  Dare, and 
> Derek IIRC, I, and others have thought "cool, all I have to do is make a 
> business case and Microsoft will support RELAX NG and lead us out of the 
> XSD dark ages"   Trouble is, we just have nothing to work with to make 
> such a case.  It's not just us; I don't think XML Spy or Stylus Studio 
> support RELAX NG either, AFAIK for the same reason. 

That leaves room and opportunity for smaller tool vendors. Among others,
oXygen (XML IDEs), XXE (wysiwyg XML editors) and Topologi (in its own
category) do support RELAX NG very nicely.

That's probably not enough to make bug guys even notice, but I keep on
strongly recommending them for this reason and their support of RELAX NG
might be one of the reason of their increasing popularity. 

Eric
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