Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema question

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 17:10 +0000, Stephen Green wrote:
> Maybe it will catch on so much in Redmond that the guys responsible for their
> servers, platforms and database get hooked on it too :-) Last time I looked
> there didn't seem to be anything serious that would run RNC or RNG in .NET
> though :-(  I probably won't get far in my environment running
> anything in a JVM.

XQuery and XSLT are widely used in the corporate "enterprise"
environment.

Since XQuery and XSLT use (optionally) XSD to supply a type hierarchy, I
don't see XSD going away.  Changing RNG to be able to recognise and
assign a user-defined hierarchy of types is possible in principle;
Makoto Murata said to me that the result would have to be a
deterministic subset of RNG.  It's not clear to me that the XSLT and
XQuery communities want this particularly today; part of that is because
there are not many implementations widely-available that do let people
program using the type hierarchy right now.  That seems to be changing.

Liam

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