Mark Taylor wrote:
>> asking whether certain particular bits of software, whether TOPCAT
>> or XML binding tools or something else, can be expected or made to
>> work with a given schema feature is not the right way to decide
>> what the schema should look like.
Alasdair Allan wrote:
> "fixing" the standard to work round broken toolsets is a dumb idea. > Either fix the toolsets or use different tools.
I might point out that XML Schema (capital-S) is itself a specific technology with its own strengths and limitations. IVOA standards (and their underlying Platonic schemata) should be developed with full knowledge of the "features" of Schema – but we should be careful to distinguish between requirements placed on our standards by the innate nature of the astronomical domain and those imposed by the limits of current technology.
Rob Received on 2006-09-22Z16:50:04