Re: Comment on XSD 1.1

On 2009/05/22 20:02, Pete Cordell wrote:

> Personally I would have preferred XSD1.1 to be more of a maintenance
> version, fixing what seemed clearly wrong, rather than adding new
> functionality. To that end I'd have gone for:

> - Relax cardinality constraints of xs:all members.

Does that solve
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xmlschema11-1-20040716/reqs.html#maxOccurs-all 
?
If it does, then this is interesting. Apparently, in 2004, it was 
considered a non-goal. It might be interesting to look at how many of 
the classifications in 2004 turned out to be correct, and why.

This goes back to 
http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/xmlschema-current/lcissues.html#all-with-n-gt-1. 
The links there are no longer working (renumbering issue? In the long 
term, it might be better to use links of the form 
http://www.w3.org/mid/...., because they are more stable)

And doing a bit more archeology, this goes back as far as
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/1999OctDec/0048.html 
(James Clark). Apparently, it takes 10 years to fix some things. But 
even if it takes time, it sometimes happens. Great.

Regards,    Martin.

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#-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp   mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

Received on Monday, 25 May 2009 09:22:15 UTC