RE: ISSUE-12: indentifying a conformant schema

Hi Paul,

> I'd suggest the "reference implementation" of that automatic detection 
> mechanism is going to need XSLT (i.e., more than just XPath and that SCD's 
> and PSVI don't belong on the list as they are not "programing languages" 
> in which such an RI could be written) or schemaTron.  I'd prefer it be in 
> XSLT.

Schematron is really just an XSLT generator, 
but yes, XSLT would be my choice too.

> By assertion mechanism do you mean, for example, that we might bless some 
> specific markup in appInfo that schema authors could populate to assert 
> that the schema (fragment) conforms to one or more patterns?  

That's where I was going.

> I'm not so sure how useful that would be to the community.

I'm weary of this too, given this could smack of blessing the 'profile' ..

Paul

Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:45:00 UTC