> but > a) we have no mechanism comparable to DOCTYPE for indicating > what schema to use, so its not clear how one would record that > b) validating at delivery time seems wrong to me; it should be done > at author time before a document is committed for publishing
Sure, but those are pretty easily solvable problems. For instance you could bind schemas to mime types of incoming documents. On the 2nd point it may be better to validate before you publish, but most document management systems really NEED a way to valid things that are commited to them. Its also quite possible that a document might not exist completely on the client side. Suppose I have a 20 meg XML document and my system lets me edit just a small chunk of it, then send that fragment back. The fragment might well not contain enough context for validation (I think the XML Fragment spec has basically run aground on this issue as well). In that case it might be necessary for the system to be able to do some validation, and it sure would be nice if it could be built right into AxKit... -- Tod Harter Giant Electronic Brain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
