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Very interesting. This also more clearly explains why RNG does not provide "type" like XSD does. It provides validation but not typing. I don't agree with the premise, however, that representing inheritance (or type) is irrelevant to the conceptual model. What if the conceptual model is in fact inheritance as opposed to a mechanism of representing a conceptual model. It may be irrelevant to some classes of conceptual models ... ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee dlee@calldei.com http://www.xmlsh.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@mitre.org] > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:04 PM > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org > Subject: RE: RNG vs. XSD : is the use of abstract types and > polymorphism a good or bad thing for schemas for XML? > > John Cowan wrote: > > > See http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/design.html#section:15 > > for James's thinking on inheritance in schema languages. > > Fascinating! > > Here are a few excepts from the article: > > One of the most significant differences between RELAX NG and > W3C XML Schema is that RELAX NG does not have any concept > of inheritance. > > Inheritance has proven to be very useful in modeling languages > such as UML. However, I would argue that trying to make an XML > schema language also be a modeling language is not a good idea. > An XML schema language has to be concerned with syntactic details, > such as whether to use elements or attributes, which are irrelevant > to the conceptual model. > > ... there is no need for it to support inheritance; the role of the schema > language is purely to describe the XML syntax used to represent the > conceptual model. > > ... the role of the schema language is purely to describe the XML syntax > used to represent the conceptual model. RELAX NG has the advantage in > this role that it provides more flexibility in the choice of syntax. > > /Roger > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > ____ > > 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@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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