Re: [xml-dev] Victory has been declared in the schema wars ...

• From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@...>
• To: xml-dev@...
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:27:07 +1100

Michael Champion wrote:
>
> Finally, I really don’t think that XSD is dramatically “worse” than 
> the rest of the XML corpus. The people who really specialize in and 
> understand the spec can work with it, and the WG is addressing the 
> worst flaws in 1.1 DTDs are what cause us the most day to day pain. 
> Namespaces are probably second. If you are going to repair the 
> foundation, why not just pull down the whole house and rebuild it 
> “properly”? There are good reasons not to do this, of course, but I’m 
> not sure we’d be able to resist the temptation.
>
Has MicroSoft made a commitment to upgrade to XSD 1.1? What is the 
timetable?

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe