Tim Bray Says RELAX

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."

Comments

XML Totally Sucks - All of it!

[l810c]

I may be old school, working with flat files and all for over 20 years, but I do work with a lot of newer technology.

Every time I have to interface with with XML, I just groan.

It's extensible, rah rah.
It's self documented, rah rah.
rah rah blah blah

It's way over-hyped, unnecessary in most cases and way over used.

Give me a DB connection or a flat file, period.

Re:Relax NG: Design-by-Inspired-Individuals

[SimHacker]

Do you have any idea who you're calling a "not-invented-by-me blowhard", and what else they've invented and written? You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Learn your history and get your facts straight, before showing yourself to be a such an ignorant blowhard. If you had a leg to stand on, you wouldn't be afraid to post under your own name, troll.

Why do you have such hard feelings about RNG? Were you on the XSD committee??! Shame on you! Yuck! Bad dog.

-Don