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- To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Sti ll missing Updates
- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:47:15 -0500
- In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020103094935.01de62e0@softwareag.com>
- References: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E4021BDC6F@softwareag.com >
At 09:55 AM 1/3/2002 +0000, Sean McGrath wrote:
>Its also getting buzz because you can fire it up in Emacs or Windows Notepad
>grok it, change it and so on. You don't need any GUI tool. This is not to say
>that GUI tools are not desirable for RelaxNG. The critical issue is that they
>are "nice to haves" not "must haves". When we get into visual
>tool "must haves" as we are in some ares of XML standards work we are
>in dangerous waters because the visualizations are not part of the
>standards - therefore
>vendors create different visualizations. If the visualization *becomes*
>the notation, no
>amount of XML syntax for persistence will save you from the subltle, slow
>squeeze
>of embrace and extend.
I agree.
It also doesn't help that none of the visual tools support all of XML
Schema. You need a GUI tool to write schemas, but the GUI tool does not
support all of XML Schema.
Jonathan
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