WS-I and Schema profiles

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Monica,

Reference the OASIS News item below.

I'm not sure who "Glover" is - but I'm
guessing - probably chair of co-chair of WS-I?

Could you bring to the WS-I teams
attention that OASIS already have the 
CAM specification and open source jCAM 
implementation that is perfectly suited to 
creating Schema profiles with.

There's also a tutorial available on how you
can augment schema definitions in this way
with several examples in the ZIP file 
that is downloadable from the OASIS CAM TC
website.

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> Time to Rethink XML Schema?
> Jack Vaughan, Application Development Trends
> 
> Profiles are useful as they distill the experiences of bleeding-edge
> implementers. To make one Web service talk to another is still
> something of an accomplishment, and using WS-I profiles can save a
> lot of time on the old learning curve. But what of schema? The World
> Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has worked hard to standardize this part
> of XML. Apparently, even though XML is five years old, this is still
> a maturing area. Glover told us that his group is organized to help
> users surmount problems, and that feedback indicates schema
> representation is one of them. "A lot of people are having problems
> using XML schema representation. They are building schemas that
> define payload. The problem is that the spec [from the W3C] is
> extremely large. At times, it offers fundamentally different ways
> to describe the same thing," said Glover. He noted that the W3C is
> working right now to fix "errata," but suggests that WS-I may be
> able to be helpful in establishing useful profiles for schema. "There
> are areas where it could be made more precise," Glover said.
> 
> http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=9589
> See also XML Schema Languages: http://xml.coverpages.org/schemas.html
> 
>