Re: Reviving the xPL Schema definition discussion

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > XSDs seemed to be the way to go for this, despite the fact
that xPL
> > > messages are not XML, it still appeared to be possible to
define the
> >
> > Hmm, not sure I agree.  XSD is pretty good at describing XML
> > documents themselves, but having written a few XSD documents
> > for our integration projects, I really don't think it would
> > be a good fit for something that is more flat like xPL.
>
> Just about every development environment can easily read and parse XML
-
> I'm not sure if the same is true for XSD - and I'd imagine that an
> XML-based syntax will be easier for most developers to read and
> understand than an XSD-based version.
XSDs are much harder to interpret programmatically, and we'd be
shoe-horning it in anyway. Defining our own XML standard would
produce a much simpler solution and that is the xpl ethos.

Perhaps somebody could produce some drafts of an XML document to decribe
the schema of an xPL message type or two. Give us something
more concrete to consider....

Paul




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