[xml-dev] Relax NC, was: XML spec and XSD

["Michael Sokolov" <sokolov@ifactory.com>]

To my way of thinking, the compact notation and relative simplicity is what
makes RNC/G extremely attractive.  I'm actually really glad it doesn't solve
your problem, Douglass!  No offense, but if it did, it would be as complex
as XSD.  I guess that's just to say that they seem to occupy different
niches.

In my first project using Relax, I was able to write schemas for my fairly
complex documents after reading documentation (James Clark's excellent
tutorial http://www.relaxng.org/compact-tutorial-20030326.html) for only
about an hour.  Admittedly my problems were much simpler than the ones you
describe - only simple inheritance schemes using extension (adding
additional elements and attributes in the subtype), but what was great was I
didn't have to become an expert to do it, and all my colleagues: programmers
and customers (content editors), are able to read the schemas with almost no
training at all.

-Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glidden, Douglass A [mailto:Douglass.A.Glidden@boeing.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:09 PM
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> Hmmm...I must confess I didn't really explore the shorthand 
> version of RNG--perhaps I should take a look at it.  That is 
> effectively the same as the longhand way I was doing it, and 
> while it doesn't strike me as particularly elegant, it at 
> least takes up less space.
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