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Battle of the bulging standards. (Schema Language).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-SEP-02 		Format: Online - approximately 809 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The many people and organizations who came to the XML industry from the database and software development industries have always wanted better standards for modeling the native data structures they interchange in XML. Some support for this was always likely in developing the XML Schema language that was expected to supplant XML 1.0 DTDs. Yet when drafts of the W3C XML Schema language (WXS) emerged, the mechanism provided for integrating with data type support proved immediately controversial.

To simplify the matter a bit, the Post Schema Validation Infoset (PSVI) annotates the Infoset of an XML document (i.e., the abstract model of its nodes) with information about the types that became associated with each node during schema processing. The many people...

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