Re: [xml-dev] Benefits of validation

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

Thanks.  I wasn't too sure what I was after really... faced with someone questioning the need for schemas I was a little stumped on what to say.  I provided the usual answers, but thought it might be helpful if I could point them to a w3schools style page or article (which I couldn't find).

On 01/02/2008, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> wrote:

Well, it's not an article, and I'm guessing that much of it is aimed at a slightly more technical audience than you might have in mind, but in 2002 I gave a DevCon talk, the slides for which Sam Ruby has kindly posted on his Intertwingly blog at [1].  At least one of the slides nets out my views on that, though at a pretty high level.  In case it's of help, the contents of the pertinent slide (#9) are:

What are schemas for?

* Contracts:  agreeing on formats

* Tool building: know what the data will be before the first instance shows up
    * Database integration
    * User interface tools
    * Programming language bindings

* Validation:  make sure we got what we expected

Noah

[1] http://intertwingly.net/slides/2002/devcon/SchemaSecrets.ppt

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