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Re: Schemaless XML?

  • From: dal <dalapeyre@mulberrytech.com>
  • To: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:38:54 -0400

Re:  Schemaless XML?
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com> wrote:
> 
> Schemas are a convenience that enable useful things: validation (when
> validation is a requirement), directed authoring (when content is
> authored), defaulting of attributes (when omitting attributes is
> convenient for some reason), imposing more precise datatyping on
> attributes and content (which doing so is useful).


I agree with all these functions.

But another major function of schemas (small ’s’) is to communicate
TO OTHERS the XML components (syntactically at least and, yes, 
some semantics implied if the schema documentation is included).
The function of telling folks what will be in your documents
(even leaving all semantic implications aside) may well be the
major purpose of a schema. Validation can be done quite nicely
outside any grammar.

—Debbie


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