Re: Choice

Hi Piccand,

> --> hummm ... as far as I know, Schematron is not a w3c
> recommendation - How will it evolve/be supported in the future -
> will the W3C schema evolve in the direction of Schematron and extend
> their schema spec to cover Schematron features ?

Hard to say. I'd hope so, personally, because I don't think there's
any way for XML Schema to articulate everything about a markup
language without supporting a rules-based approach. I also think that
Schematron would benefit from the structure-oriented approach of XML
Schema. The XML Schema WG are apparently working on XML Schema 1.1
(http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity.html#future) but I imagine that will
involve bug fixes rather than extensive changes to the language (?)

In the meantime, there are tools that support XML Schema and
Schematron combinations, see e.g. http://www.topologi.com/.

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Friday, 8 March 2002 10:42:42 UTC