- From: Cheney, Edward A SSG RES USAR USARC <austin.cheney@us.army.mil>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:50:24 -0500
- To: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Why do you use XML Schemas? > > /Roger I have completed only one single Schema document. I needed a proof of concept to solve theoretical business problems and create a cost reduced method of information desimination for my employer. I needed something that structures conveyance of human expressions and data literals exactly like the original intention of HTML. However, in order to solve the problems at hand I needed something where the structure itself is self-validating and simultaneously allows for structured data over a transmission means that is inherently extensible and possibly self-replicating without interference or degradation to the formulated structure. Schema alone was insufficient to complete this objective, but it got me 95% of the way there. The remaining 5% is not a limitation in Schema, but rather a limitation in the capabilities of XML and possibly SGML. I don't if this bit about SGML is true, but I needed Schema to define an acceptable data structure, and so SGML is irrelevant. For this last 5% I wrote a definition of a processing consideration that solved my remaining problem in such a way that this single feature became the core of the document that the Schema based structure is completely wrapped around. I could never have completed this objective with the terseness required had it not been for SGML. Austin Cheney, CISSP http://prettydiff.com/ Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
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