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Rube Goldberg would have loved XML Schema: what good is a specification if no one can properly interpret it? ().

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUL-02 		Format: Online - approximately 838 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Rube Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize--winning cartoonist who illustrated complex ways to achieve easy results, saw his cartoons as "symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results." He believed there were two ways to do things: simple and hard, and that a surprising number of people preferred the latter.

At this writing the XML-Dev mailing list is debating the role of XML for IETF protocols (more specifically, the requirement to use XML Schema when defining XML-based IETF protocols). (XML-Dev is a high-traffic mailing list targeting XML developers. Readers are encouraged to join and participate at www.xml.org/xml/xmldev.shtml).

Why the concern? XML Schema has been a W3C Technical Recommendation for well over a year. You'd expect the members of XML-Dev (many of whom are...

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