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Hi Bryan To my understanding of CCTS, having just one possible NDR is against the spirit of CCTS - completely against it. CCTS should be implementation technology agnostic - that's one of the main tenets behind it's very concept. But I can sympathise with wanting to 'outsource' effectively the XML know-how. It takes so much time to aquire :-) - as my comparative ignorance compared to your knowledge of the W3C specs attests :-( Nevertheless there are some products and technologies which don't like complex schemas such as those which want a standalone schema - no imports. The idea that these are excluded from CCTS implementation would I think be very unfortunate to some minds behind CCTS and seems to betray the promises it made if CCTS does now go along with this idea. Still, I only know all this second hand so I'd better shut up :-) All the best -- Stephen Green Partner SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+22:37 .. and voice On 26/04/07, David Carver <d_a_carver@y...> wrote: > bryan rasmussen wrote: > > hi, > > someone I'm working with will soon be arguing for wholesale adoption > > of the CCTS NDR and using as their argument that users will be able to > > generate schemas just by writing models as opposed to having to deal > > with the complexity of schemas. > > > > This seems pretty wrong headed to me, but I must admit I am not > > knowledgeable enough about CCTS NDR and the modelling thereof to know > > how advanced any applications for doing this modelling are. I am going > > to assume not really too advanced. > > > Bryan, there is at least one tool that will generate most of the CCTS > NDR, but it generates a narrowed profile of the NDR for XML, not the > full selection. You can take a look at GEFEG FX, and make your own > opinions on how well it does. > > Unfortunately, as more tools come out I think this will be the case, in > that they will generate profiles of the NDR instead of supporting all > the rules. > > > An especial quibble I have is, yes it may generate schemas from models > > but will schemas generated from models be able to work in a broad > > cross section of processors. It seems somewhat wrong headed to expect > > automatic execution of schemas from models when processors for schemas > > often have a lot of incompatibilities. > > > The main compatibility problem that you may experience is in how imports > and includes and namespaces are supported. Also, any tool that > generates schema should at the minimum test the schemas it genrates > against the most widely used schema parsers. Unfortunately, most tools > just generate the schema and say that it works. > > > I am also more apt to think that writing code is preferable to > > generating code, partially caused by the experience I have that making > > the models is as complicated as writing the code in a lot of > > instances. > > > I tend to agree, as I've taken an agile aproach to working with > schemas. I tend to use UML and other modeling tools as more of a proof > of concept design, and then write unit tests and schemas to implement > that design. In a data driven modeling world I think we are still a > long way off from truely realizing Model Driven Development, unless you > have the ability in a tool to tweak the way the Platform Specific Model > is generated, you will always be at the mercy of how the tool authors > profiled their platform specific implementation. > > Even what is modeled, may not be the best way to implement in the real > world. What looks good in a diagram may have performance issues when > implemented. > > Dave > > > > > > Cheers, > > Bryan Rasmussen > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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