xml-dev - XML Schemas {Re: Foreign Names}

[Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com>]

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
 
> I also wonder, though, if some simpler mechanism for providing such limited
> translation facilities might be sensible.  The information being handled
> isn't wildly complex (though Rick's note about attributes and adjectives is
> intriguing), and I'm not sure that using the full power of Schemas is the
> most efficient or the most effective way to go about this small project.
 
Well, personally, I'd prefer if XML Schemas was split into 

* an infoset annotation language which traverses down the DOM and
adds architectural attributes (e.g. xsi:type attributes) and
default values like a mini-XSLT and which looks after all
type-determination 
and infoset issues, and

* a RELAX-sized, non-infoset-contributing schema validation language,
(and

* non-infoset-contributing Schematron, which could then validate using
the xsi:type 
etc attributes.)

I think a mini-XSL (which would just add attributes) would be pretty
useful
and lite-weight.  I hope XML-DEV people can look at some of the XML
Schema
drafts now out at W3C: of course it is probably more useful to find
logical 
errors and gaps rather than commenting on the feature set or the
paradigm--
still the proof of the pudding for XML schemas will be taking it on the
road 
for serious testing (oops, mixed metaphor) and not armchair analysis.

Rick Jelliffe

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