- From: Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:02:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
- cc: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk, www-xml-schema-comments@w3c.org, "Schneider,John C." <jcs@mitre.org>, "Cokus,Michael S." <msc@mitre.org>
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Roger L. Costello wrote: > I read these statements as saying that there is no standard way for > specifying in an XML document what XML Schema it conforms to - every > XML Parser will have its own way of doing things. Really??? If > this is so, please, please tell me why this is a good thing. I am > struggling to appreciate its beauty. /Roger I am as puzzled as you are. Yes, it's true, as Andrew writes, that "ultimately, the processor of a document determines what processing is done" [cited as the rationale for the decision by the XML Schemas WG to demote the xsi:schemaLocation attribute to a "hint"]. The same could be said of any software, which behaves in direct response to the instructions written by its creators, rather than the prescriptions of standards. The role of a standard is to assist in the processes of predicting how software which claims conformance to it will behave, and of determining which products are actually conformant. -- Bob Kline mailto:bkline@rksystems.com http://www.rksystems.com
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