At 02:39 PM 3/20/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Michael Kay scripsit:
>
> > Yes. I think Schema has definitely fallen into the trap of being too
> formal.
>
>Formal != obscure. The RELAX NG specification is quite formal, but not
>at all obscure; indeed, one can for the most part skip the formal parts
>and still make sense of it.
Yes, the problem with XML Schema is that is pseudo-formal. It has the
precision of prose and the easy readability of mathematical notation. The
Schema Formal Description tries to make this completely formal, but this
work has never been completed.
Jonathan
