Tim Bray Says RELAX

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 4, 2006 @03:26PM from the holy-war-schema-2.7 dept.

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."

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Couldn't agree more by antonyb · 2006-12-04 15:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

My experience with XML Schema is exactly that; hard to write in the first place, hard to maintain, and regular interop problems between different implementations that make the theory of web services a practical nightmare (idrefs are the first example that spring to mind).

On the other hand, RELAX NG "just works".
(all IME of course...:)
ant.