- From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:56:05 +0530
- To: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Hi Rick, Just thought of posting my thoughts about this subject. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote: >I would like to register with the W3C TAG and the W3C XML Schema WG that, on having >considered the XSD 1.1 draft, I think it is exactly the wrong direction for the WG and W3C >to be taking. The XSD WG is dilebarating on the XSD 1.1 specifications since many years I believe. Now that the CR stage has passed, I don't think it's prudent now to suggest we should abandon XSD 1.1. This kind of suggestion might have been feasible at the very beginning of XSD 1.1 process. At the beginning of XSD 1.1 requirement specification you could have worked to influence the requirements. But it doesn't help the XSD community, if you suggest something like this now. XSD 1.0 users are eagerly waiting for XSD 1.1 to come up. Please don't deny them the benifits. >From what I could gather from your current proposal, you seem to say that: We have some good Schema languages like RelaxNG and Schematron, other than XSD. You are suggesting, that we shouldn't move from XSD 1.0 to XSD 1.1 but instead develop a new schema language say, X which has best of all worlds. I totally agree with this. But this thought doesn't justify abandoning the XSD 1.1 development. XSD 1.0 users would be very happy with the enhancements that are coming in XSD 1.1. And I believe, there are many many XSD 1.0 users. The XSD Schema WG had set out a specific scope when they started working on XSD 1.1. I believe, the scope was decided by the participation of various stakeholders. Now the WG is delivering the results of their efforts, which satisfies the agreed scope. This is great from the point of view of the concerned stakeholders. You had a whole timespan from scope definition upto now. And I don't think, this is the right time to influence the scope. Interestingly, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and XQuery use the type system of XSD. So it's really great if we enhance XSD from 1.0 to 1.1. This will benefit the XSLT, XPath and XQuery communities. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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