- From: Christopher Eliot <eliot@cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 29 Sep 2003 07:03:02 -0600
- To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Folks, I've been trying to use schemas to manipulate XML within a Java applet. The schema processors that I know about are too large to incorporate into an applet, so I've implemented code to deal with the subset of the schema language that I will actually need. By making various sacrifices, I've been able to create a useful (to me) schema tool that fits in a 40K jar file. This is small enough so that it can be used in situations where a multi-megabyte implementation is too big. It seems to me that simple types are very complex and can be safely ignored for my purposes. That is the primary sacrifice I made to create a tiny schema subset. It would be nice if there was some definition of a core to the schema standard that a lightweight implementation could support, and least for the next few years until a full featured implementation can be assumed in a standard environment. Basic XML distinguishes validating and non-validating parsers, so there is a useful terminology to discuss and guide development of subset engines. I would like to see something analogous for schemas. -Christopher Eliot Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst
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