Re: [xml-dev] Objections to / uses of PSVI?

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Re: [xml-dev] Objections to / uses of PSVI?
Eric van der Vlist wrote:

> Yes, I think so. Using the PSVI (at least with the current
> underspecification of its API and|or serialization) implies defining a
> W3C XML Schema for all your documents

Sort of. If you don't have a schema, a default schema will be used.
That's different from forcing the user to define a schema.

> and some applications may want or
> need to use other schema languages or no schema at all.

This is a real problem, given the strong ties of the PSVI to XML
Schemas.

-- Ron