Re: [xml-dev] WANTED: A New Breed of Developer

["bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>]

Well, IMHO writing a prose document that allows someone to write a
correct XML document requires more knowledge about the format, as long
as it is a document of the level of complexity applicable to real
world usage, than an XML Schema by itself tends to provide.

I suppose however that XML Schemas documentation facilities could be
made use of by whoever developed the schema to provide that
information completely, but I've never seen it actually done.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bryan,
>
> I am currently writing a specification that describes, in prose, an XML
> Schema.  When I finish, a reader will be able to create XML instance
> documents just by reading the prose; he/she won't have to examine the
> XML Schema, and he/she won't to understand XML Schemas.  That's what I
> am referring to in the first "Wanted" section.
>
> /Roger
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 2:37 PM
>> To: Costello, Roger L.
>> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] WANTED: A New Breed of Developer
>>
>> ok I don't think this is an actual help wanted, thus I think it is a
>> prescription for what should be required for the future. I don't
> think
>> that will happen with the first one:
>>
>> Translating most schema languages into schema independent prose does
>> not seem doable, because most schemas have less information than is
>> found in prose. If it was doable, by direct translation of the
>> schemas, it would be automatable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bryan Rasmussen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Costello, Roger L.
>> <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Wanted: persons with the ability to translate schemas into
>> > schema-language-independent prose...
>> >
>> > Wanted: persons with the ability to describe the assembly of
> simple,
>> > independent XML vocabularies into an integrated complex
> structure...
>> >
>> > http://www.xfront.com/want-a-new-breed-of-developer/
>> >
>> >
>> > /Roger
>> >
>> >
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