• To: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Subject: Re: Relax NG and Web Services (formerly Joining the church)
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:12:56 -0700
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David Megginson wrote:

> For me, a DTD or other schema on the processing side is little more
> than a stylesheet for transforming XML documents into a boolean value
> (valid/not-valid).

To be more precise: valid/not-valid+error messages.  Despite the nice 
things I said about RelaxNG and Jing and Trang, they have typically 
James-Clark-esque error messages:

ongoing.pie:48:22:incomplete element

But hey, they're fast and robust and a little eyebrow-wrinkling usually 
gets you there.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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