Re: RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema

["Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RELAX NG has two sources for the specification: ISO and OASIS. 
The technology is the same, the specs conform to different rules.
Furthermore, any national standards body may choose to clone, redistribute 
and reprint RELAX NG under its nation numbering conventions. 

For the ISO reference, the bibliographic record is something like this:

ISO/IEC IS 19757-2 Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) - 
Part 2: Grammar-based validation - RELAX NG,
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Document Processing and Description Languages,
ISO/IEC 2002.
(online http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0320_files/relaxng-is.pdf )

The online version says "DIS" (draft international standard) but that "D" and
the publisher's frontmatter are the only differences.  I am not sure when
the DIS will actually be progressed to IS; I think it is slated for 3Q/2002,
but it is just the (important) formality of making sure that procedure has
been followed. 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "'James Clark'" <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>; <ietf-xml-use@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema


> 
> Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> 
> > With RELAX NG becoming an ISO/IEC draft standard, what is the formal
> > reference for the specification?  ISO standards documents are not generally
> > available for free, and they come with reproduction and distribution
> > restrictions.  Given the IETF's traditional bias against normative
> > specifications that aren't freely available, will a free version of the
> > RELAX NG specification continue to be available somewhere as things progress
> > through ISO?
> 
> Given James' involvement, it's tough to see a scenario in which this 
> documentation is not on-line.  What's more important from my point of 
> view is that there already exist multiple interoperable free 
> implementations, and there's no reason to believe this state of affairs 
> will change. -Tim
>