Re: [xml-dev] can you use inheritance (extension) in relax ng?

Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> [Simon St.Laurent]:
> > If I was interested in building type systems around XML documents, I
> > think I'd be even more frustrated with W3C XML Schema than I am today.
>
> You're not the only one. See
> http://www.research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/XML2003/xml2003.html


Seconded!

That link only works under MSIE, unfortunately; users of other
browsers can find a readable copy here:

    <URL: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~mbravenb/xml-202003.html >

Even more interesting IMO is Meijer's earlier paper
"Unifying Tables, Documents, and Objects":

    <URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/XS.pdf >

This is the most promising approach to "data-oriented" XML
that I've seen.  I think Meijer's on to something here.


--Joe English