Re: [relax-ng-comment] We need an RNG schema inference tool

[David Rosenborg <david.rosenborg@pantor.com>]

John Cowan wrote:

> We could use an Open Source tool that accepts arbitrarily many XML
> documents and emits the "best" RNG schema consistent with all of them.
> "Best" would involve balancing simplicity, terseness, and narrowness
> (schemas should not accept more than necessary).
> 
> Microsoft has just announced such a tool for W3C XML Schema.

Apart from beeing an interesting programming task, what are
the real world use cases for such a tool? Similar tools for DTDs
have been around for years, but I've never felt even remotely
tempted to use them. But that's just me ...

Cheers,
David