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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:30 PM
> To: 'Bill Kearney'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] So, what's new in the world of RELAX NG?
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> Best use isn't enough UNLESS there is repeat use of the tool.
> The market for schema tools to repeat users is what size if
> you start to split that up into 'best used for'? In other
> words, is a marginal utility market big enough? Or should
> the solution be a niche vendor who supplies support
> into the .Net framework? Can that be done and still get
> all the nice productivity features of VS?
Adding RELAX NG support to the .NET Framework wouldn't be that hard. In
fact you could do that trivially by porting Commons.Xml.Relaxng from
Mono to .NET. However when I think of XSD support at Microsoft I don't
just consider validating XML parsers. There's Object<->XML mapping with
the XML Serializer which is an integral part of the XML Web Services
story, Relational<->XML mapping with the ADO.NET DataSet and separately
in SQLXML, there's BizTalk's support for XSD, there's Office whose
entire XML support is based around XSD, and then there's actually
having the Visual Studio IDE understand how to work with RELAX NG.
So given all these ways XSD is used in various Microsoft products is
your position that all you'd expect from Microsoft if it supported RELAX
NG is adding a validating parser to the .NET framework and some syntax
highlighting + directed editing in Visual Studio?
That sounds highly unlikely.
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