[gdmxml] RELAX NG

2002-06-26 Thread Hans Fugal
Hello all, I have decided to go with RELAX NG for the schema. I will explain my reasons for doing so. First and foremost, it is more readable. A developer getting his feet wet with XML will be able to understand the schema just by reading it. Understanding an XSD schema takes a little research,

RE: [gdmxml] RELAX NG

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Fitzgerald
Hans, I don't think you will ever be disappointed with your choice. Beyond the elegance of RELAX NG, one other reason you won't be disappointed is the growing availability of tools. All these tools are written in Java, btw. For example, you can generate a DTD with only an XML instance document u

Re: [gdmxml] RELAX NG

2002-06-26 Thread Hans Fugal
Yes, I forgot to mention that jing could translate an rng schema to a dtd (with limits of course) and later to an XSD schema. At that point I thought, as you said, how can I lose? * Michael Fitzgerald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Wed, 26 Jun 2002 at 09:34 -0700] > Hans, > > I don't think you will eve