Simon St.Laurent <> writes:
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> It is very difficult for me to get excited about more recent
> specifications, despite having spent/wasted an enormous
> amount of time
> sorting out W3C XML Schema for myself. I've put in the time and I've
> concluded that W3C XML Schema is poison from top to bottom,
> structures to
> datatypes, a misbegotten attempt to treat XML as if it were
> objects and/or
> relational database content with a tip of the hat to XML
> 1.0's basic set of
> attribute types and a 'mixed' feature. Worse, W3C XML Schema
> seemed to
> signal the beginning of a pile-on of enormous and ever-more ambitious
> specifications.
While observing software engineering it's often been observed that Version 2
of anything is overkill, it includes everything everybody could think of
that was left out of Version 2. I guess the same is true of specs....
