> I think the proportion of
> cases where XMLSchema validation happens at application run-time is
> going to be way short of 100%. I personally think's actually going to
> be way short of 25%, it's useful for design support and debugging but
> it's just not at the right level for business-logic validation.
I'm not so sure. Particularly when the XML messages span administrative
domains, schema validation seems like a good way to help protect your
application against stupid and/or malicious programmers. In fact, we
believe it should be pushed all the way down to the network layer. :)
/r$
