- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:50:40 +0200
- To: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
Jonathan Marsh wrote: > XSD has xsd:annotation/xsd:appInfo because they don't allow extension > elements in arbitrary spots. We do, so we can add machine-readable > information anywhere in WSDL. The extra complexity in the syntax is > therefore completely unnecessary, and not backward compatible with WSDL > 1.1. I have always thought Schema's extensibility model was needlessly > Byzantine and hope we won't make the same mistake. I totally agree with Jonathan here, I find XML Schema's approach to this overly restrictive and verbose. To take a slightly caricatural point of view, if you can't extend at arbitrary places, what are namespaces for? -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Scientist, Expway http://expway.com/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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