RE: [xml-dev] W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Sti ll missing Updates

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:33 AM
> To: Sean McGrath; 
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts -
> Still missing Updates
> 

> RELAX-NG is a simple and straightforward language, but it is defined with 
> formalisms quite similar to those of the XML Query Formal Semantics. XML 
> Schema is not as simple and straightforward as RELAX-NG, and this may be 
> partly due to the fact that its formal semantics were defined after the 
> language itself 

RELAX-NG is getting good buzz these days not because it's based on the
formalism(s) of hedge automata and tree regular expressions, but because
it's elegant -- simple yet powerful. RELAX/TREX  are elegant because Makoto
Murata and James Clark very deeply understand both the underlying formalism
and XML itself. No amount of post-hoc formalism can create elegance when it
does not exist in the core of a design.