RE: RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I just had a look at draft-hollenbeck-ietf-xml-guidelines-04.  Section
> 4.6 says "XML Schema should be used as the formalism in the absence of
> clearly stated reasons to choose another."  I strongly disagree with
> this recommendation.
> 
> I believe RELAX NG is preferable in many situations to XML Schema and
> should receive at least equal billing.  Concretely, I propose in the
> sentence above changing "XML Schema" to "XML Schema or RELAX NG".

As I mentioned in my earlier note, Larry, Marshall, and I have been having
an off-list discussion to address this proposal.  Given that there's been a
lot of debate around the topic our preference would be to simply remove the
recommendation sentence quoted above from section 4.6 while continuing to
acknowledge the issues.

I'll also fix the text describing Schematron, DSDL, and RELAX-NG, indicating
that part of the motivation for their development is/was to address issues
with XML Schema.  Is that a reasonable compromise?

-Scott-