[relaxng-user] Re: RELAX NG book, very cheap

[Robin Berjon]

John Fuller wrote:
> As much as I admire the elegance of RELAX NG, to implement web services, 
> it's pretty hard to get around using at least the XML Schema Part 2 
> Datatypes.  From SOAP attributes themselves to the informative schemata 
> people provide in their web service specifications, it seems like at 
> least those types are pretty widespread...
> I 've found myself for the sake of expedience using xsd a lot more than 
> I wanted...
> 
> Of course, I know there's a mapping, and mapping tools,
> and no need to use the schema language, but there seem to be a lot of 
> xml schema tools
> particularly related to wsdl and code generation.

Yes, that's part of what I was covering (a bit hastily). I know some 
people hand author WSDL (I know I do) but a lot seem to autogenerate it 
somehow.

Note that WXS Part 2 can be (and is being) used from within RNG 
schemata. The company I work for (Expway) does amongst other things 
schema-based "binary xml" stuff, and uses WXS part 2 types heavily. 
Using them together with RNG's ability at defining structures seems to 
us to be a powerful mix and we've been working on it.

-- 
Robin Berjon