bobc
...@my-deja.com wrote:>
> Schemas are definately the way to go but when is the W3 going to release
> a solid specification for them?
I'm not on the Schema WG; I don't know any more about target
dates than the rest of you. I _have_ heard, informally, that
they've made a considerable amount of progress over the past
month in resolving some of the most contentious issues,
which is encouraging.
> Until then it seems we'll never be able
> to actually validate XML with a schema.
Not portably, anyway.
It's the same situation that XSLT has been in until recently
-- the spec was still evolving, so there weren't a lot of
folks willing to invest in pre-standard prototypes and those
prototypes didn't all agree with each other. You could use
them on an experimental basis inside your own shop, but it
was generally a bad idea to assume that the customer's
version would be compatable... or that they had a copy at
all. XSLT is settling down now; schemas will do likewise.
(I'm also hoping it's soon. We'd like to start writing
support for schemas into the DOM APIs...)
Ah, the joys of being on the leading edge of technology...
<smile/>
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