xml-dev - Re: XSchema question

[rbourret@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Ron Bourret)]

> But don't you prefer completely crazy hairball of a problem over simple
> problems?  <G>  Thanks for the help.  I think I'll continue to kick the
> hairball on my own just for 'kicks'.

I think this is a really nice usage of XSchema and no different from most other 
XSchema applications -- the deciding factor is that the application gathers 
schema information at run time, rather than having it hard-coded.  In general, 
the code that does this shouldn't care if the schema information changes 
half-way through the file.

So by all means, continue to play.  It will give us more concrete data about 
implementing XSchema and perhaps open some new ground for 2.0.  I would also 
point out that, not only is this idea useful for validation, it is also useful 
for building database storage structures on the fly.

As I mentioned before, we are unlikely to address this in 1.0, but I would 
suggest the following (non-guaranteed) semantics for forward compatibility:

1) The XSchema applies to everything following it until the next XSchema is hit.
2) Each XSchema completely replaces the previous XSchema.

-- Ron Bourret

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