From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4d5213dac267f6a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-26 08:41:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news-in.ntli.net!newspeer1-win.server.ntli.net!newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Yet another XML and Ada issue References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:44:04 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.107.63.68 X-Trace: newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net 1082994040 81.107.63.68 (Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:40:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:40:40 GMT Organization: NTL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7507 Date: 2004-04-26T16:44:04+01:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Marius Amado Alves wrote: > : "RELAX NG seems a valuable alternative to XQuery et al." (Marius) > : > : "No! > : > : RELAX NG is an alternative schema model, whose use should be actively > : discouraged. > > Why? I don't know. This argument is just silly. Relax NG is more powerful than XSchema 1 and a lot less awkward. I'm unsure if it is still so with XSchema 2 but I have little faith in the W3C anymore. It has taken a long time for them to modularise HTML and quite a few of the 'standards' I've worked with are overly complicated and insufficient for what they say they are for.