Re: [xml-dev] PSVI using existing infoset items

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> 
> > Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:
> >
> 
> >>I have already tried to submit the idea a couple of times, but it
> >>doesn't seem to get any echo... I'd like to give it a last chance
> >>and after this, I promiss to stop pestering you!
> >>
> > Not only is it a good idea, we've done it!  See [1].
> 
> That's great... and it raises lots of questions ;=) ...
> 
> Do you know which schema processors are supporting this serialized
> format ? Is there an option to generate it out of XSV ?

Yes, use the -r switch.

> And also, what is the status of the document ? Wouldn't it be worth
> to make it a more official W3C specification ?

We're trying to figure out where to take this next.  Maybe a
non-normative appendix to the next edition of XML Schema.

> This could also be a point of covergence between different schema languages,
> do you know if it might happen ?

Good point.

> Finally, how does this relate to the efforts of DOM Level 3 ? If I give a
> document with this format to a DOM Level 3 parser, is there a chance that it
> takes it as a document coming out of a validating parser ?

I doubt it :-(.

ht

> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/serialized-infoset-schema.html
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