- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:44:16 -0400
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>, www-tag@w3.org, public-xml-versioning@w3.org
Henry S. Thompson scripsit:
> In section 3.8 "What Schema language(s)?" [1] you say "For example,
> writing a V2 compatible schema in W3C XML Schema requires special
> design, which is not required in a schema language such as RELAX NG."
> I'm not sure I understand what is meant here -- is there somewhere else
> in the document (or its companion) where this point is expanded a bit?
I don't know the specific answer, but what comes to mind is the UPA
constraint. Given two similar schemas v1 and v2, it requires considerable
craft to create a WXS schema that will accept documents conforming to
either v1 or v2, whereas in RNG it's as simple as writing "v1 | v2".
See Norm's blog post at http://norman.walsh.name/2004/07/25/xslt20 .
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greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed
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