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Subject: RE: Encouragement to commit to partnering with XML Schema datatypes
Hello Aron, I don't think you need to be concerned about RELAX NG direction wrt datatypes. I do not speak for the TC, but I can assure you that RELAX NG will very likely never 'reinvent the wheel' in regard to datatypes. It is a language for structural validation of XML patterns that plugs in, so to speak, datatypes from other vocabularies and namespaces, such as XML Schema Part 2 datatypes. RELAX NG will not go out of sync with XML Schema datatypes by creating its own datatype library, but will only use datatype libraries from other namespaces as modules. I believe this modularity speaks to the simplicity, flexibility, and expressiveness of the language. In my opinion, RELAX NG does not 'compete against' XML Schema but provides a lightweight alternative (as Murata-san would say) to XML Schema. In addition, I do not believe the RELAX NG TC is working under the auspices of any commercial interests, but will succeed based on its solid theoretical foundation that will circumvent future troubling anomalies. Best regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Aron Roberts [mailto:aron@socrates.Berkeley.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:11 PM To: relax-ng-comment@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: Ian Galpin Subject: Encouragement to commit to partnering with XML Schema datatypes Hi, Congratulations and thanks for all your efforts to date on RELAX and TREX, and for your commitment to further develop RELAX NG <URL:http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/index.shtml>, as a specification for a simpler and more regular alternative to XML Schema. This message is to strongly encourage you to commit at an early stage to partnering with XML Schema datatypes. There are considerable, perhaps obvious advantages in maintaining datatype interoperability between these two schema languages. Also, there's little point in 'reinventing the wheel' in this area. By doing so, you will also help ensure that such standards as ISO 8601 -- the International standard for date and time representations, which has the virtues of being unambiguous and easily parsed, and which is already fully reflected in XML Schema's date and time datatypes -- will also (by extension) become an integral part of RELAX NG. Many thanks, Aron Roberts Workstation Software Support Group . 221 Evans Hall University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3808 USA aron@socrates.berkeley.edu . +1 510-642-5974 . fax 510-643-5385 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: relax-ng-request@lists.oasis-open.org
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