RE: basic question about xpath support of xml schema

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Subject: RE: basic question about xpath support of xml schema
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:04:16 -0500

Dave, Mike and all,

It'd be ironic if XML technologies were to become so tightly-coupled that one couldn't use one without using all the others, considering that much (most?) of the reason why XML got such legs even after SGML best practice had come to be so well-defined, was that SGML technologies remained top-heavy to implement and dependent on vendor-specific tools, despite being based on a non-proprietary "standard".

The bigger a standard, the more grey areas and partial incompatible approaches, the less standard. If this happens, it will only make the day come sooner when XML is toppled by its own, lightweight, loosely-coupled progeny ... the next big idea. If W3C forgets why XML succeeded, this next-generation thing will come from somewhere else.

Twilight of the Gods, anyone?

Cheers,
Wendell

At 09:42 AM 2/1/02, DaveP wrote:

Mike said:
> I mean we could try and define the extensibility mechanisms and the
> conformance rules such that an implementor who wanted to
> support something
> like RELAX could extend the language to do so.

So W3C are prepared to positively support W3C schemas,
yet require those using other schemas to use extensions?

What is that American word? IEEE were very keen on it,
having been prosecuted for it on a couple of occasions?

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