Re: Do XML Schema processors verify schemas using XML Schema?

"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sam Tregar [mailto:sam@tregar.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:07 PM
>> To: Dare Obasanjo
>> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
>> Subject: RE: Do XML Schema processors verify schemas using XML Schema?
>> 
>> The latter, of course!  Obviously being a conformant XML 
>> Schema implementation means checking schemas for validity.  
>> I'm asking whether they do it using a schema (sForS?) or by 
>> some other process.
>
> I doubt that any implementation uses the sForS given that it is an
> invalid schema

I _think_ the published errata have addressed all the ways in which
the sForS was invalid -- have we missed something?

> and even if it wasn't does not fully describe all the constraints in
> the W3C XML Schema recommendation.

That's of course true -- the Schema Representation Constraints have to be
open-coded.

ht
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