MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
I can see both sides of this debate.So do I. If the camp trying to standardize PIs is not the majority of the RELAX NG community, I do not think that PIs will take off.
I see one problem with this approach. I think that all agree with the fact that such PI is mechanism for creating *ad-hoc* associations with schema. And people who are against standardizing PI are mostly against such ad-hoc mechanism, because in the perfect world there should not be need for it. Unfortunatelly we don't live in the perfect world and there are situations when ad-hoc mechanisms are very handy. This is supported by fact that in the past months several vendor schema associating PIs emerged, there is TEI's internal proposal about it, ...
Shouldn't the group of users who need such ad-hoc mechanism have chance to standardize it?
For me it is evident that there is a need for some ad-hoc mechanism. I think that we could discuss whether PI is the best way how to implement it, or not. But I would have very mixed feeling if some other group of people say you do not need ad-hoc mechanism for associating schemas, we know. They just have different needs then me, face different problems, have different environment constraints.
I agree that having standardized some more genereal and indirect way of associating schemas with document that wouldn't rely on information stored inside document would be better in general. And I would be very happy if vendors and users can agree on something like locating rules used by nXML, so it would be possible to share this sort of information across different tools. But once again, this is a different task, that doesn't solve "ad-hoc" problem that many (or at least some) users have.
Jirka
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