Re: ISSUE-18: Schema Authoring Styles

It'd be very helpful to understand what problems people had: whether they 
are implementation problems that have been overcome or whether they are 
intrinsic schema problems.

Schema already requires too many global/named components, which already 
gives schema authors a hard time. If they blindly believe that all types 
should be global, it'll make things even harder.

I'm not drawing a conclusion that this is a bad advice. Just think we 
should understand the issues better before making a decision.

Thanks,
Sandy Gao
XML Parser Development, IBM Canada
(1-905) 413-3255
sandygao@ca.ibm.com


public-xsd-databinding-request@w3.org wrote on 02/21/2006 08:57:24 AM:

> 
> 
> ISSUE-18: Schema Authoring Styles
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/databinding/issues/18
> 
> Raised by: Paul Downey
> On product: Basic
> 
> Our input document suggests using the 'venetian blind' style of schema
> authoring, that is using named complexType types.
> 
> This originates from personal experience with early tools which had 
difficulty
> with anonyous, nested elements and complexTypes.
> 
> Is this advice something we should carry into the Basic patterns, 
possibly
> allowing other patterns in the Advanced specification, or are a mixture 
of
> elements, types named and anonymous likely to give a good experience 
with
> databinding tools?