xml-dev - Schema and Implementation experience

[Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>]

Ron Bourret wrote:

>Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com wrote:
> >
> > One indicator is whether people are successfully writing
> > implementations, implementations are compatible, and the implementors
> > are not complaining (too much). This seems to carry a lot of weight in
> > the W3C.
>
>Does anybody know if they are? In particular, is anybody implementing
>the full spec, or are they just implementing part of it?

In fact, the Candidate Recommendation phase is the time in which this 
question must be answered, and the Schema Working Group is not yet in this 
phase. Test suites and formal models will probably be needed to determine 
coverage.

To enter Candidate Recommendation phase, I don't think that Schema should 
have to prove the above things. But to *exit* Candidate Recommendation 
status and proceed to Proposed Recommendation status, Working Group members 
had better be sure that people are successfully writing implementations, 
implementations are compatible, and the implementors are not complaining 
(too much). If we can't demonstrate this, then Schema is not likely to be 
successful.

Jonathan