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> 1) Why do people object so vociferously to the PSVI (other than the lack > of a catchy name and the fact that it came from an unpopular spec)? Here's a catchy name: PIVS, as in PSVI PIVS me off! Just kidding. Just spamming the list with some humor. Please don't hurt me... :) --- Jimmy Cerra > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:46 PM > To: xml-dev > Subject: Objections to / uses of PSVI? > > I am having trouble understanding two things in this entire discussion: > > 1) Why do people object so vociferously to the PSVI (other than the lack > of a catchy name and the fact that it came from an unpopular spec)? > > 2) How do PSVI proponents intend to use the PSVI? > > As far as I can tell, the PSVI contains three groups of information: > > 1) Additional data values (defaults). Since this already exists with > DTDs, it seems any controversy here should have existed before the PSVI > came to being. > > 2) Type information. My guess is that this is where the greatest > controversy / utility is. On the utility side, it means you can do > type-aware programming. On the controversy side, it means you can do > type-aware programming :) > > 3) Validation information. Other than wasting space, my guess is that > virtually everybody will ignore this. It seems that the only people who > would be interested are a very small group of applications such as > validators and editors who want to tell the user where their document is > invalid. > > Am I missing anything else here? > > -- Ron
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