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RE: Draft of W3C Note available for review: Associating Schema

• From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
• To: "'Edd Dumbill'" <edd@usefulinc.com>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:05:55 -0600

Precisely.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Edd Dumbill [mailto:edd@usefulinc.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:36 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re:  Draft of W3C Note available for review: Associating
Schemas with XML documents 1.0

On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> There were several proposals on the table including xml-schema, but if
> my recollection is right, counter argument against xml-schema was that
> it can lead to false conclusion that this PI is suitable only for use
> with W3C XML Schema and not with other schema languages like Schematron
> and RELAX NG.

I worried as much.

It's just this kind of thing that gets XML a bad name. The horse of XML
Schema bolted a long time ago. Making clarity suffer in the name of
correctness is a poor decision.

-- Edd

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  • Re: Draft of W3C Note available for review: Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0
    • From: Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>