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Simon touches on one of several divides, and they come down to "what is the purpose of this schema" I have used XSD an inheritance to define information models. Information models benefit from abstract types and derivation because extensibility may be the primary concern. In a particular application, I may wish to invalidate a message that conveys information that I do not understand, i.e., I may need to reject a validly derived but incomprehensible message. This may because the application has a restricted purpose. My smart refrigerator-based Bar-coded food inventory can legitimately reject power tools, even if they have valid bar codes. This may because of a restricted profile for a restricted market. It may be a version issue, as my v1 system does not understand the options of your v2 message. WS-I (Interoperability) addresses this be explicitly disallowing the type of optionality that comes with substitution groups. This does not mean that substitution groups are bad, it means that they have their place and you must know if you are in that place. It is routine to take a information defined with a substitution group and create a derived schema with a CHOICE of the derived types that fit a particular WS-I profile. I have not seen a lot of conversation about this--but that may be my ignorance of the right readings. I tend toward language such as the Information Schema and the Application Schema, and the WS-I Profile. The pleasure of the XML Schema is that it can be used for many things. The challenge of the XML Schema is that many parts of it should not be used for many purposes. The tragedy of the XML Schema is that many practitioners, particularly tool-based practitioners, do not distinguish between the purposes, and use a schema built for one purpose for another. The same can be said, IMO, for RNG So: is there a common language describing the purpose of a schema? Is that language associated with rules for how one should build the schema within that purpose? Even more to the point is there tooling for, say, validating an application schema against an information model schema? tc "If something is not worth doing, it`s not worth doing well" - Peter Drucker Toby Considine TC9, Inc TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee Email: Toby.Considine@gmail.com Phone: (919)619-2104 http://www.tcnine.com/ blog: www.NewDaedalus.com -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:25 AM 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? On 3/14/12 9:03 PM, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > I like what Norm wrote.I'd add a couple of things. As do I, though my things are a little different. From my perspective, W3C XML Schema was a trainwreck because its foundation structures came from the languages people wanted to use to process XML with, not from much precedent in markup itself. Classical inheritance was the way of Java and C++ and many others, and was apparently a siren call few could resist. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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