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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@softwareag.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:33 AM
> To: Sean McGrath; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts -
> Still missing Updates
>
> RELAX-NG is a simple and straightforward language, but it is defined with
> formalisms quite similar to those of the XML Query Formal Semantics. XML
> Schema is not as simple and straightforward as RELAX-NG, and this may be
> partly due to the fact that its formal semantics were defined after the
> language itself
RELAX-NG is getting good buzz these days not because it's based on the
formalism(s) of hedge automata and tree regular expressions, but because
it's elegant -- simple yet powerful. RELAX/TREX are elegant because Makoto
Murata and James Clark very deeply understand both the underlying formalism
and XML itself. No amount of post-hoc formalism can create elegance when it
does not exist in the core of a design.
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