- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Oct 2001 10:28:23 +0100
- To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes: > The W3C XML Schema recommendation seems to consider that it's out of > its scope to define the processing architecture around a schema such > as the usage of a schema by a validating parser and I was wondering > where this was defined|discussed. I guess I think the REC is pretty clear at the architectural level, about what conforming schema-aware processors must do. It goes as far as it can without making platform or implentation assumptions. > For instance, one could imagine that a validating parser could pass to the > applications the canonical form of the values read in a document. But that would require representation decisions to be made, decisions which might rule out certain platforms. > This would make a huge difference for the applications (probably much more > appreciated by "data oriented applications" than by "document oriented > applications"). I agree data-binding is important. If you have any ideas about how to say more than we do now without compromising interoperability, please share them! ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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