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Re: Restrictions on existence of attributes?

• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: Re: Restrictions on existence of attributes?
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:02:44 +0200
• Cc: "xml-dev@l... Developers" <xml-dev@l...>
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On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:32, Michael Kay wrote:
>> 2) W3C XML Schema processors differ in their interpretation
>> of the spec on this point and this leads to interoperability issues.
>
> That's an even less convincing argument. If a schema processor doesn't
> conform to the spec, then don't use it.

That is fine when you have a choice and are in a restricted  
environment, but it doesn't fly if the schema is meant to be used  
more or less in the wild. I'm much less exposed to it today and I  
think things are getting better but I know we still see quite a few  
schemata that "work for me" (where "me" is usually an XML Spy user)  
but are invalid (sometimes ridiculously so) or conversely ones that  
are correct but break here or there.

-- 
Robin Berjon
    Senior Research Scientist
    Expway, http://expway.com/

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