- From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:59:59 +0530
- To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Hi Pete, On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote: > That would cover 90% of the problems I see people having with XSD today. An > XSD 1.2 (or something new) could then add additional features such as > xs:assert and so on. I agree to most of your points. But I feel, having xs:assert significantly improves capability to define quite complex validation constraints, which were almost impossible to do in XSD 1.0. xs:assert is a very straightforward concept to be understood by users, and WG being able to provide it in XSD 1.1 is I feel, a great addition to the spec. for e.g., please consider something like below: <xs:assert test="@min le @max" /> OR <xs:assert test="@dob gt xs:date('2005-10-10')" /> If we exploit the full power of XPath 2.0, we can write much complex validation rules, for e.g. <xs:assert test="@x = count(for $x in .//* .. something)" /> IMHO, producing such significant additions (like xs:assert) after many years of WG efforts is a good deliverable. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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