Re: [GNUe-dev] xml schema

[Jason Cater]

Also, the XML Schema defines a heirarchial-based schema, whereas our
goal is to create a simplified relational schema without much of a
learning curve. XML Schema is well-suited for replacing DTDs, but I
don't think defining relational databases is a good fit. 

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Jason Cater
GNU Enterprise

P.S., Great job on your senior project. How are the GOLUM meetings
going?




On 28 May 2003 07:20:16 -0700
Derek Neighbors <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 02:06, Warren Turkal wrote:
> > Why is this project developing their own schema language instead of
> > using the W3 standard XML Schema language?
> 
> Why not x-forms W3 standard as well?
> 
> There are three points to this, others can chime in.
> 
> 1. In case of most of the standards, they didn't exist yet when we
> started.  So you could argue why don't they follow us?
> 
> 2. If you are willing to throw out argument 1, because we dont have
> the money to throw into lobbying for w3 to adopt us, please note these
> standards are still 'rough' drafts (or were until very recently)
> 
> 3. The problem with w3 standards are you have no say what so ever
> unless you are willing to pay big corporate money to sit on the board
> of whatever standard it is.
> 
> That said we can revisit the schema standard and compare it to what we
> have and look for compliance/compatability options, but I suspect this
> will end similar to our x-forms evaluation.
> 
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