Tim Bray Says RELAX 180
twofish writes to tell us that Sun's Tim Bray (co-editor of XML and the XML namespace specifications) has posted a blog entry suggesting RELAX NG be used instead of the W3C XML Schema. From the blog: "W3C XML Schemas (XSD) suck. They are hard to read, hard to write, hard to understand, have interoperability problems, and are unable to describe lots of things you want to do all the time in XML. Schemas based on Relax NG, also known as ISO Standard 19757, are easy to write, easy to read, are backed by a rigorous formalism for interoperability, and can describe immensely more different XML constructs."
Don't do it. (Score:4, Funny)
To the point. (Score:2, Funny)
Hey Tim, don't hold back, tell us what you really think.
Re:Don't do it. (Score:2, Funny)
I agree! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Couldn't agree more (Score:3, Funny)
COBOL Totally Rocks - All of it! (Score:1, Funny)
Well I'm your counterpart in India and I'm happy to hear you're having problems getting use to newer technologies. Keep up the good work.
Re:MyXML scheme (sucks too) (Score:1, Funny)
XSD: "Mission Accomplished!" (Score:4, Funny)
From the xml-dev [xml.org] mailing list:
From: Rick Jelliffe
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:46:06 +1100
Robert Koberg wrote:
Maybe a better analogy would be that the people who say that XSD is lovely is Mr Bush's "Mission Accomplished!"
Though of course there are differences between Iraq and XSD. One seems to be about people with their own fiefdom agendas stubbornly miring us in a quagmire, using a grabbag of thin reasons to justify it, denying any evidence that things are not rosy, perpetually promising that things are turning around, and enmeshing all sorts of decent people in a life of horror, difficulty and with no confidence in accomplishing the mission. The other is in the Middle East.
Just joking...
Rick
Re:Relax NG's compact non-XML syntax (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Relax NG. (Score:3, Funny)
So should the lesson here be to "RELAX if you have MONO"?
Re:Maximizing Composability and Relax NG Trivia (Score:2, Funny)