RE: [xml-dev] Victory has been declared in the schema wars ...

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

www.tbray.org/ongoing

A point for X3D that most of us know: if you don't care about XSD, the X3D
engines do their own application parsing and validation just as they did for
VRML97.  That this obvious solution is used by so many applications, we
usually forget to mention it.  Someone did for HTML5.   That is possibly one
side effect of the heaviness of XSD.  Where speed matters, it appears to be
a non-starter.  That performance is a matter of checking things other than
syntax and type on load and that the parse is where that gets done does not
make the heaviness of XSD less a deterrent.

DTDs were used by authors.  They were seldom used for load time checking
other than because SGML required it.  Nothing about XSD or RELAX changed
that.

len


From: peter murray-rust [mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk] 

At 05:24 28/11/2006, Michael Champion wrote:
>I see that Elliotte Harold has declared the schema wars over, and 
>Tim Bray, Don Park, and others have piled on.  That would be great 
>news, except for the little detail that the non-cognoscenti don't 
>seem to know or care.

Could you provide a link, please?

Many thanks,

P.