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> XSD is a failure by any sane technical measure. Yes, it's ugly, and very hard to use, and doesn't do a lot of things that people might like it to do. But you could say all that of Windows, and Windows is not exactly a failure, though you could argue that in a saner world it would be. There are other measures of success that are not entirely insane: (a) it meets all the requirements that were specified at the start of the project. (b) it has half a dozen decent implementations, with a level of interoperability that's not unreasonable by computer industry standards (much better than SQL, for example). (c) it's used by large numbers of people, many of whom have a choice. (d) it does most of the things that most of those people need it to do. (e) it underpins a large number of industry standards that enable effective interchange of data around the world, creating enormous value by oiling the wheels of commerce. If it were really such a total failure, wouldn't the spec be gathering dust, rather than being actively discussed on this list? Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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