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I was just looking over Sean McGrath's fine blog, and noted this:
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/2003_09_14_seanmcgrath_archive.html#
10639589639410483
Compact non-XML syntaxes seem like a good - and growing idea.
Way back in 1998 I posted this, at the start of a process that turned
into XSchema/DDML:
http://www.simonstl.com/articles/xmldtd2doc.txt
I really liked the idea of using XML documents to describe XML
structures, but at this point, I'm thinking it was a serious wrong turn
in the development of schemas. It's not necessarily a terrible idea -
XML versions of schemas are sometimes quite useful for transformations
and some kinds of processing - but compact syntaxes make a lot more
sense if you're creating schemas.
I spent the morning working with a friend of mine who called with a
"Help! How do I write an XML Schema?" question. We worked through the
information model he had, used RELAX NG Compact Syntax to describe it,
and everything was convenient, human-interpretable, and quite lovely.
Then, of course, we used Trang to turn it into a W3C XML Schema, but the
good part was the RELAX NG Compact Syntax.
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