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We're not "large publishing company", but our work envolves schema
developing for museum records which are half (text-) documents, half
(tabular) data, and since we're developing them by hand (not using any
fancy DTD/XSD editor) this is far more easier using RNG than using XSD.
Better syntax, better human understanding - you don't get lost in those
complex-type lines ...
I can always translate them into XSD or DTD, if needed, using Trang.
So RNG is our main basic format.
Hope that helps,
klaus e. werner
p.s.
We sure use the datatypes of the XSD specification, though ;-)
DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
> I saw someone (don't remember who) make the generalization recently that
> RELAX NG is gaining in popularity with people doing XML work with
> irregularly structured documents that would end up being published in some
> medium or other (the "doc heads"), and that W3C Schemas are more entrenched
> with the XML developers doing systems involved in more transactional
> processes such as web services and database interaction ("data heads"). Does
> anyone strongly agree or disagree with this?
>
> An important auxiliary question: how many large publishing organizations
> (i.e. doc heads with lots of documents) have 1. made a strong commitment to
> XSD, 2. made a strong commitment to RNG, or 3. are still sticking with DTDs?
>
> Just *why* RNG would be more attractive to doc heads and XSD to data heads
> seems fairly obvious to me--RNG allows greater precision in how tightly or
> loosely you specify content model constraints, XSD makes mapping to
> relational and OO systems easier, transactional XML specs are usually
> written in XSD, etc.--so I'd rather not start a big long thread adding to
> these "why" lists. I'm more interested in hearing about the levels of
> commitment among doc heads that people have seen to the three choices listed
> above, to get an idea of where we're all headed.
>
> Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
> snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
> spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
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