I agree, that the lack of support for regular expressions is the biggest obstacle to schematron use.
I wonder if anybody is already working on a second validator for XMLForm with support for regular expressions. Guido ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeroen Cranendonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:50 PM Subject: more xmlforms + schematron, why ? > Looking at xmlforms and schematron more closely, I'm starting to > wonder why this combination was chosen anyways? from the examples > it seems the purpose of schematrons is to validate input fields, but checking > something simple as if a field is only alpha characters seems to be near > impossible or atleast really hard with schematron (or am I missing something > here ? ) > Isn't schematron intended for checking document structure, not validity of > single fields/elements ? > > Could someone eleborate on this ? please ? :) > and if anyone does have a simple idea of how to do a simple check with > schematron for alpha or non alpha strings ( 'test' is good, 'test1' or > 'test#' is bad ) I'd be very gratefull for that too :) > > Many thanks in advance, > Jeroen Cranendonk
