RE: [xml-dev] Rick Jelliffe quotable quote on the purpose of schemas

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'Philippe Poulard'" <Philippe.Poulard@...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:42:19 -0000

> Except that you will need 3000 tags to express all that 
> people expect and will expect.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Why should a constraint expressed
in a declarative language be harder to express than the same constraint in a
procedural language? Why are multiple tags needed?

Can you give me an example of a constraint which is difficult, or verbose,
to express in a declarative language such as XQuery?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/