Re: Non-normative status of schema - negative consequences for interoperability

/ Hugh Wallis <xmlschema@standarddimensions.com> was heard to say:
| As more and more other standards start to use the XLink standard I believe
| that this will increasingly become a matter of concern, and forward thinking
| on the part of the WG at this stage to prevent this from happening will
| enhance the quality and acceptance of this powerful standard.

Apologies for the long delay in responding to your comment.

Section 4.4 of the XLink specification makes clear, it's entirely
reasonable for an XML vocabulary that uses XLink to define attributes
such that they are more constrained or even to leave some attributes
unspecified.

As such, making any single schema normative would seem like a mistake.
In any event, the schema (or DTD) has not previously been normative
and it is not within our charter for XLink 1.1 to make any schema(s)
normative.

Please let me know if this response is satisfactory.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.