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At 10:13 20/06/2006, Rick Jelliffe wrote: ><snip/> This is very useful and I intend to comment more shortly, but one quick point: >ISO DSDL was created to give a home and official status to these >kind of little languages. If anyone can come up with a technically >excellent and implemented little schema language that helps validate >some significant kinds of markup idioms that XSD or the other ISO >DSDL schema languages do not cover well (as is *entirely* possible), >I am certain the ISO SC34 WG1 group would be interested in >considering it for standardization, in typically unpanicked fashion. > >To be honest, I suspect that Schematron with a particular extension >could pretty much do what Peter requires. In particular, ISO >Schematron has a macro facility called abstract patterns that allow >you to be much more declarative in labelling the participants in a >schema relationship: you could have one like On visiting the SchematronWiki it seems that the ISO Schematron (30 pp) is only available by paying ISO CHF120. Having sat on an ISO ctte I assume this to be correct. I am afraid this rules out the use of ISO Schematron for the community I work in and also makes it impossible to discuss its constructs on this list. Is there any solution (like an obsoleted draft which is correct except for minor typos...) P. ><snip/> Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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