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> 1. Why is the Schema non-normative? The minute you write something more than once, especially when two different "languages" are used, there is an exceedingly high probability that the two items will not be completely equivalent. It's therefore good practice to say pick one and say "where they conflict, *this one* wins." As in baseball, where "tie goes to the runner." In standards, it's common to call the lesser thing informative, or non-normative. > 2. What does it mean for the Schema to be non-normative? As you said, where they conflict, the prose wins. > 4. Why are there discrepancies? When will they be resolved? I think discrepencies are inherent in the nature of the work. I'd expect conflict resolution to be handled by editorial updates to the specs, should the WG be willing to do so. Note that since the schema is non-normative, such changes are therefore purely editorial and could be handled just through errata or other update mechanism. In other words, this wouldn't be "XSD v 1.2." Since the schema is only intended to be informational, there's probably not a lot of incentive to fix bugs in it. > 5. When will the Schema become normative? Hopefully never. "Man with two watches never knows what time it is." Why do you think you want that to happen? > 6. Can someone, outside the W3C, create a normative Schema for XSLT? What does it mean to define the normative schema for xslt? If (when) you found a difference between the w3c prose and somebody's xslt which would you think is wrong? The answer is probably "it depends." If my open source software provided a different schema for xslt, folks would probably fix it. If it was Microsoft, folks would probably live with it (viz., browsers and html). > 7. Or, is creating a Schema for XSLT exclusively within the > jurisdiction of the W3C XSLT working group? That would be the obviously place to start. /r$ -- Visiting Member, IBM Academy STSM, DataPower Chief Programmer WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/datapower/
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