XHTML & Schemas

[Oren Ben-Kiki]

Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck at iedigital.net> wrote:
> Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> > OK, I'm a fool - I should have gone to the spec before. I have some
> > mitigating circumstances - one being delivery deadlines, and
> > the other is the assumption that there wouldn't have been such a
> > fuss over this issue if it was resolved.
>
> Come on Oren, ... this is XML-DEV you're talking about :-)

Well... still. And anyway, it does turn out that it is not resolved after
all.

> > And the consequences of this are so far reaching, and go
> > against so many deeply held positions expressed in this
> > mailing list - how did this remain hidden for so long?
> > Is it that people simply ignore XSchemas (as I did :-)?
>
> Nope. See my email below from Monday. I don't think I could have been
> any clearer.

You are right, of course - I missed that, especially the "under current
proposal" part. BTW, I must say I'm starting to think Simon St.Laurent's
general approach to these issues is the right one - while fully appreciating
that it does not seem to be the way the W3C is heading :-(

> Whilst I don't want to say I told you so, I have to, just
> to restore my sanity (this last 'debate' has been close to bonkers on a
> number of occasions).

Feel free; This mailing list does tend to get out of control at times
(remember the unnecessary chaos about namespaces and attributes?) I'm fully
willing to accept my well deserved share of slaps on the wrist. But hey,
"you'll never learn anything unless you are willing to occasionally make a
fool of yourself in public". I just hope not to make a habit of it.

I still think using three namespaces is a bad idea :-)

Share & Enjoy,

    Oren Ben-Kiki


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