Re: SAX2 ... missing features?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

Ah, well lots of us are quite happy with things that are simpler
than W3C's schemas, but we don't need to start that again!

I must say I'm perplexed by folk who are happy using proprietary
libraries (binary), but won't use "GPL-with-library-exception".
GPL has fewer restrictions:  never a viral NDA to worry about,
never any contamination of your apps just from using the library.

So far as I know, no vendor other than Microsoft has found any
problem using, for example, the GNU C library with proprietary
closed-source applications.  Every vendor shipping apps on
Linux does exactly that.  IBM and Oracle are just some of the
better known names; neither has gives away their core IP when
they link against GNU Libc.

- Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Brennan" <Michael_Brennan@allegis.com>
To: "'David Brownell'" <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: RE: SAX2 ... missing features?


> Thanks for the link. I probably didn't pay too much attention because I
> never used DTDs too much; I held out for schemas (I wanted the data types,
> and better modularization and extensibility support). Also, in most of my
> work, I'm not able to use GPL software (though most other open source
> licenses are fine).
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@pacbell.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:51 PM
> > To: Michael Brennan
> > Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: Re: SAX2 ... missing features?
> > 
> > 
> > >  Of course, it would be even
> > > better to see validators implemented as SAX filters, so the 
> > > programmer can
> > > exercise more control. The only one I've seen implemented 
> > > this way is James
> > > Clark's RELAX NG validator, though I haven't attempted an 
> > > exhaustive survey.
> > 
> > What, you mean you missed the original?
> > 
> > http://xmlconf.sourceforge.net/java/apidoc/gnu/xml/pipeline/ValidationConsumer.html
> > 
> > Does standard DTD validation.
> > 
> > I should look at that RelaxNG validator; the previous validator (from
> > that family) which I saw used XSLT.
> > 
> > - Dave
> > 
> >