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> 1) Why do people object so vociferously to the PSVI (other than the lack
> of a catchy name and the fact that it came from an unpopular spec)?
Here's a catchy name: PIVS, as in PSVI PIVS me off!
Just kidding. Just spamming the list with some humor. Please don't hurt
me... :)
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Jimmy Cerra
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@rpbourret.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:46 PM
> To: xml-dev
> Subject: [xml-dev] Objections to / uses of PSVI?
>
> I am having trouble understanding two things in this entire discussion:
>
> 1) Why do people object so vociferously to the PSVI (other than the lack
> of a catchy name and the fact that it came from an unpopular spec)?
>
> 2) How do PSVI proponents intend to use the PSVI?
>
> As far as I can tell, the PSVI contains three groups of information:
>
> 1) Additional data values (defaults). Since this already exists with
> DTDs, it seems any controversy here should have existed before the PSVI
> came to being.
>
> 2) Type information. My guess is that this is where the greatest
> controversy / utility is. On the utility side, it means you can do
> type-aware programming. On the controversy side, it means you can do
> type-aware programming :)
>
> 3) Validation information. Other than wasting space, my guess is that
> virtually everybody will ignore this. It seems that the only people who
> would be interested are a very small group of applications such as
> validators and editors who want to tell the user where their document is
> invalid.
>
> Am I missing anything else here?
>
> -- Ron
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