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Thanks for the info James. There are some folks at my company that are
"gun shy" of using ISO standards due to a "licensing fee" they impose
(see following message). What are your thoughts on this?
A message from one of my colleagues:
> Remember that ISO has tried to impose a licensing fee on use of
> their country code standard. Given that sad effort, I would
> advise against use of any ISO standard if there was a viable
> alternative. If they can do it for country codes, they can
> impose licensing fees for use of any of their standards,
> e.g., Relax-NG.
A second question: what implementations are there of RELAX NG?
/Roger
James Clark wrote:
>
> I have just been informed that RELAX NG was published by ISO as an
> International Standard on 1st December 2003. The full title is:
>
> ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003
> Information technology -- Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) --
> Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation -- RELAX NG
>
> Its ISO Catalogue entry is:
>
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=37605
>
> The text of the published standard is unfortunately not freely
> available. However, the FDIS text remains available from the SC34
> Chairman's site:
>
> http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0362_files/relaxng-is.pdf
>
> The only differences I have found between the FDIS text and the
> published standard are that the Foreword is slightly different and the
> cover page, headers and footers have been changed in accordance with its
> change in status. Even the pagination appears to be identical.
>
> James
>
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