RE: Easier way to define enumerations

 
> At 00/05/31 14:34 -0700, Biron,Paul V wrote:
   
> >Unfortunately, I think that adding the "valuelist" attribute would do little
> >more than engender more comments that the schema spec is too complex and
> >disconnected.

Users often only care about complexity when it is difficult to do
something that they thing should be simple to do, in particular when
that complexity is a cost to them--when they have to wade through
unnecessary options or understand unrelated concepts.

Not having alternative forms is exactly the kind of thing that may cause
a user to be more short-tempered with the plethora of other features.  

In particular, they may consider (as I do) these lexical/token issues to
be a more fundamental issue for a schema language to address than the
delicate intricacies of atomic data typing.  The current drafts seem to
assume that raw XML solves all lexical/tokenizing issues, but that is
far from the case.

Rick Jelliffe

Received on Thursday, 1 June 2000 03:47:24 UTC