Re: [entity-resolution] Spec comments to process

[Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

At 23:05 2003 08 20 +0100, Anthony B. Coates wrote:
>** Reply to message from Normand_Montour@lgs.com on Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:28:38
>-0400
>
>> Norm,
>>    about point no. 2 in the technical area (schema):  My thoughts would be
>> that
>> at least the DTD and the W3C Schema should be normative, but not exclusive
>> of any other one...
>
>That said, if XCatalogs relied on RELAX NG, I wouldn't be able to deploy them
>on any project I work on.  Also, as I remember, we decided that schemata of any
>form were not necessary for XCatalogs, just useful for some users.  In that
>case, I would suggest doing DTD and XML Schema and RELAX NG, *none* of which
>are normative.  Any takers?


I think I tend to agree.  The prose should be normative.
I'm not sure I see the point of making any of the schema
normative.

paul