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

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: "'Edd Dumbill'" <edd@usefulinc.com>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:59:34 -0000

> I think the prominence of RNG and Schematron examples in the 
> specification mitigates this. Those whose assumptions are 
> driven merely by the syntax of one PI are not even, in my 
> estimation, going to be able to understand W3C XML Schema 
> enough to use it.

You're not likely to have to deal with bug reports that say "I wrote
<?xml-schema books.xsd?> and Saxon ignored it." 

But I am. I'm concerned about the people who understand very little, and
there are lots of them. These people see an example on a web page and copy
it, guessing the semantics from the keywords used. We really need to avoid
creating such obvious usability traps: the XML space has far too many of
them already.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

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