In a message dated 08/05/2003 17:14:18 GMT Daylight Time, randy.nonay@net-linx.com writes: > Isn't XSD a W3C standard? Hi Randy, Isn't the more important question what quality of standard it is? And how usable and informative people find it? I am fairly comfortable with XSD schema or Relax NG (having explored its predecessor TREX a long time back) but I know lots of people who really struggle with XSD schema. If Relax NG is more useful, and helps readers to understand the SVG spec, isn't that a good thing? Why is it being abandoned willy nilly by various > workgroups in favor of rng - which is not a W3C standard?? > I don't think you can fairly use the term "willy nilly", since this is being discussed in a sensible, open, rational way. It makes sense to me that a W3C WG uses the most appropriate tool for the job, wherever it was invented. > Not having used RNG, with a quick look the one problem I see with RNG is > that you can't have mandatory attributes. Not sure if this is a problem... > > Otherwise the XSD is already widely supported by SVG utilities, while RNG > isn't... > Which utilities did you have in mind? Andrew WattReceived on Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:11:56 UTC
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