Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema Checklist

[Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@ca.ibm.com>]

Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote on 21/10/2012
12:53:36 PM:
 
> Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> > 
> > As far as I can see the list of version-specific URI listed in
that
> > section are "Schema Language Identifiers" _not_ Namespace
URI. I don't
> > think they are used (or usable) at all with Schema processors
directly
> > they are just suggested labels that _other_ systems (such as
a
> > configuration file to tell some GUI which schema processor to
use) might
> > want to use to refer to versions of the schema specification.
> 
> They are being used in APIs (see Xerces for example [1]) for 
> selection and identification of schema processors which support 
> specific versions of the XML Schema language. 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/xerces/Xerces-J%3A_XML_Schema_1.
> 1_Design_Thoughts#Changes_to_support_XML_Schema_1.1_in_JAXP 

> It's a shame this change to the semantics of
the JAXP API hasn't 
> been discussed and agreed on any JAXP mailing list that I'm aware
> of. If it had, then there might be more than one processor that 
> supported it by now.

It's been a very long time since there was any activity
on the JAXP JSR. As far as I know there is no (functional) JAXP EG anymore
to discuss and agree on such matters.

> Michael Kay
> Saxonica

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org