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Ronald Bourret wrote: > > Linda van den Brink wrote: > > What I'm interested in knowing, is how sure are we that the w3c (schema and > > other?) specs are not comprehensible enough, and that implementation > > experience and rapid acceptance are being affected. Is it just a hunch we > > have? A general feeling among people on this list? What's the w3c's view on > > this? > > For me, it's largely a hunch. I'm smart enough to have waded through the > XML 1.0 spec and written a DTD parser, but dumb enough to need to read > most specs quite a few times before I begin to undestand them. I'm also > in the target audience for the schema spec -- I'll (hopefully) be > writing a processor in the next few months to generate database schemas > from XML Schemas. So when I feel (as Miloslav Nic does) like a "10 year > old child reading in general theory of relativity" and put the spec > aside (yet again) due to frustration, I can only assume that others feel > this way, too. > ... Just speaking for myself, on a good day I think I understand most of the XML, XSLT and Xpath specs. I'm not sure if I'm in the target audience - I'm somewhat responsible for having pushed us into using XML Schema for specifying B2B messages, following a successful experience last summer with DCDs for manual message specification. I'm not writing a schema parser, though I have written a nice stylesheet for documenting the kind of XML Schemas you get when converting DTDs using XML Spy (we had a *lot* of DTDs to convert) and manually adding basic type declarations. I went with XML Schema because I knew that schemas had to happen, and basically I trusted that the W3C + Corporates backing it would ensure that this standard would win out. But at the back of my mind is the guilty knowledge that I still don't really understand XML Schema Part 1. My tuppence worth - the more complicated the system, the more clarity is required in the specification; the more features appear to overlap, the more the rationale and use cases for the design decision need to be documented. Francis. -- Francis Norton. why not?
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