[Nmc-wg] Review of documents

Roman Lapacz romradz at man.poznan.pl
Wed Jan 20 13:05:35 CST 2010


Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2010-01-20, o godz. 19:28, przez Michael  
Bischoff:

> Hello all,
>
> Are you sure Nina? Afaik a WSDL can be defined with a single method
> that takes a document and define that the document needs to have a
> NMWG schema?
>
> Alike: http://www.w3.org/2001/04/wsws-proceedings/uche/wsdl.html
>
> Though it does require a xsd or other supported schema type (eg not
> relaxng). Now relaxng can be transformed but the transformation isn't
> formal/unambiguous/two-way, or differently put if you transform from
> relaxng to xsd and back you are not guaranteed to end up with the same
> relaxng document. This is because some relaxng concepts can't be
> mapped completely into xsd. Now afaik we don't make use of such
> concepts now but it could create problems in the future.
>
> As I frequently hear that there is no objection to particular  
> preference
> for xsd/relaxng from a theoretical standpoint (I know WG prefers
> relaxng) Why not switch to xsd for practial reasons?


Hmm, it's not a bad idea to switch from relaxng to xsd in nmc  
documents (although I like more the former). Most documentations of  
xml schemas I've seen were done with xsd.

Roman



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