• To: "'Eric van der Vlist'" <vdv@d...>,"'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: RE: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:38:18 -0600
• Cc: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <1033572424.10736.547.camel@ibook>

Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...] wrote:

> By business logic, I guess that Tim meant (or I least I would say
> myself) that W3C XML Schema is often weak and requires at least the
> addition of a rule based schema language like Schematron if not the 
> full flexibility and power of XSLT or a general purpose programming
> language...

Ok, that makes more sense. Having additional rule/constraint evaluation
built into the language is a huge plus, but it can always be layered
over schema validation. In .NET, you can accomplish this by writing a
custom extension that can be used declaratively on your WS methods.

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