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At 12:13 AM 4/19/2005, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>On lun, 2005-04-18 at 10:16 -0700, Dan Vint wrote:
>
>.../...
>
> > 4) The extension methods should be supported at least by the core tools on
> > Java and MS platforms. So we test with Xerces-J and MS-XML parsers.
>
>Since MSXML does not support RELAX NG, that means that if you were using
>RNG, you'd be using it to generate W3C XML Schema, doesn't it?
Ok hadn't considered that, but right now I'm searching for any ideas. Is
there a parser that works in the MS environment that supports RNG? It would
be best if it was the MS tool, but as long as there is something that plugs
into their environment that would work as well.
> > We have not found a way to do all of the above, we can answer different
> > parts but not all the requirements. We essentially have two approaches
> > currently and would like to find the ultimate solution that answered
> all of
> > the above. I'm wondering if RelaxNG or Schematron might help some of this
> > without creating too much of a burden maintaining these other environments.
>
>If you need to limit yourselves to using RNG as an authoring language to
>generate WXS schemas, that won't buy you the support of non
>deterministic models that you're mentioning below.
>
>.../...
>
> > Any ideas?
>
>You could explore the fact that XML schemas are XML documents and can be
>generated. Bob DuCharme has published a nice description of some of the
>things you can do in this domain:
>http://www.snee.com/xml/schemaStages.html
Our schemas are actually generated fro a core model/design. I don't have
the extension information because that will change with the members. If I
could plug "any" into the right spots I could generate a schema for that
purpose and use our current design for the tight validation.
>Also, you could consider doing double validations (ie a validation
>against the core schema and a validation against the derived schema).
>That would give you more flexibility than using the derivation methods
>allowed by W3C XML Schema; you could leave the schema designer do miore
>or less what he/she wants assuming you'd always be validating to the
>core schema in addition to validating against the derived one.
What you are describing is what I hoped RNG or schematron would do form me.
Maybe I could push one of the two validation requirements over to one of
the other tools.
>Finally, you can apply schemas to W3C XML schemas. These schemas can use
>any schema languages (you could restrict the W3C XML Schema schema for
>WXS, but also the RELAX NG one for WXS or write Schematron constraints
>to check your good practices).
Schematron and/or XSLT seem to be the way for managing the business rules
or internal constraints. I'll be researching that aspect soon, I was hoping
that one of these tools might have some added advantage that I wasn't aware of.
>These are just raw ideas, I hope they can help!
Thanks
..dan
>Eric
>
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