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- From: Murata Makoto <mura034@attglobal.net>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:01:52 +0900
Simon St. Laurent wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 8/1/00 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> >I've assumed (from a distance) based on statements that use phrases like
> >"upward compatibility" and "easy transition" that the functionality
> >provided by RELAX was a subset of that provided by XML Schema. However,
> >I haven't found anything in the latter comparable to the attribute-
> >sensitive content models supported by RELAX. Is this because XML Schema
> >doesn't have such a feature, or just because it's harder to find things
> >in the more densely-worded Schema documentation (or perhaps just because
> >I'm not reading carefully enough)?
>
> I think there may be a fundamental mismatch between the models used by the
> two systems. XML Schemas seems to take a top-down typing and inheritance
> approach, whie RELAX uses a bottom-up approach with what feels to me like
> set theory. (They did announce the addition of a top-down model as well
> recently.)
RELAX is rather a modest improvement of DTDs, while XML Schema is an
attempt for a grand unification theory of DTDs, object-oriented
programming, and RDB. As a result, there are some impedence mismatches.
> For me, RELAX descriptions read more naturally, but it seems to be the
> other way around for the object-oriented developers I always seem to end up
> presenting to.
Next time, you might want to use examples in STEPs 9 and 10
of "HOW TO RELAX" (http://www.xml.gr.jp/relax). These STEPs
was translated only recently.
For example,
<tag name="Point"/>
<elementRule role="Point">
<sequence>
<element name="x" type="int"/>
<element name="y" type="int"/>
</sequence>
</elementRule>
permits the following instance:
<Point>
<x>10</x>
<y>20</y>
</Point>
Moreover, from a RELAX module containing the above elementRule,
Relaxer automatically generates a Java class as below:
public class Point implements java.io.Serializable {
private int x;
private int y;
....
I will give a talk about Relaxer in Extreme Markup Language 2000.
Cheers,
MURATA Makoto
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