• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'Jeni Tennison'" <jeni@j...>
• Subject: RE: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:58:32 -0600
• Cc: "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <3D9B0101.4020504@t...>

Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] wrote:

> The problem with that wordview is that Xpath/Xquery are 
> clearly mostly going to be used at application run-time.  
> I think the proportion of cases where XMLSchema validation 
> happens at application run-time is going to be way short 
> of 100%.  I personally think's actually going to be way 
> short of 25%, it's useful for design support and debugging 
> but it's just not at the right level for business-logic 
> validation.

I guess it depends on the pool of cases. I think it depends largely on
the type of XML application. In the case of Web service applications, I
think XML Schema validation will be extremely common at runtime.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "...it's just not at the right
level for business-logic validation."?

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