RE: [xml-dev] Draft of W3C Note available for review: Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0

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Len Bullard <>
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2010-02-16T21:05:55Z
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RE: [xml-dev] Draft of W3C Note available for review: Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0
Precisely.

len

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From: Edd Dumbill [mailto:] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Draft of W3C Note available for review: Associating
Schemas with XML documents 1.0

On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> There were several proposals on the table including xml-schema, but if
> my recollection is right, counter argument against xml-schema was that
> it can lead to false conclusion that this PI is suitable only for use
> with W3C XML Schema and not with other schema languages like Schematron
> and RELAX NG.

I worried as much.

It's just this kind of thing that gets XML a bad name. The horse of XML
Schema bolted a long time ago. Making clarity suffer in the name of
correctness is a poor decision.

-- Edd