RE: [chairs] Specification Namespaces? Standard XML Schema ValidationService

["Mason, Howard (UK)" <howard.mason@baesystems.com>]

I concur that such schema checking is essential - for the EXPRESS schemas used in STEP, we insist on compilation from at least two different toolsets.

Howard Mason, PLCS

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
Sent: 16 April 2004 01:33
To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [chairs] Specification Namespaces? Standard XML Schema
Validation Service


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The TAB has considered, and recommended to the Board, a similar
suggestion in regards to the quality of the specifications that are
submitted to the OASIS membership for consideration as an OASIS Standard.

So it's being considered.

I agree with Norm that checking may be difficult...

-Karl


Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com> was heard to say:
> | Can we establish a standard validation service for all OASIS
> | specification schemata, and require validation using this validation
> | service for a Committee Draft (or Committee Specification if we change
> | it back to that formulation to avoid confusion) and for Submission of
> | a Committee Draft to OASIS for approval of a candidate standard?
>
> I expect not. I can imagine TCs wanting to publish schemas in exactly
> one of the following: SGML DTDs, XML DTDs, RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema,
> Schematron, and perhaps a number of other things.
>
> Naturally, I thinkj TCs should make sure that the schemas the publish
> are valid against the schema that defines their schema language of
> choice. But adding a formal process to assure this seems awfully
> heavyweight to me.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>


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