Re: [Vtd-xml-users] xerces discussion on VTD

[Jimmy Z. <cra...@co...>]

By essential I meant that, by taking it away, are there things 
that simply can't be done?

The fact is that after a standard gets accepted and used, it
takes a while for people to fully understand the strengthes/weaknesses
of it.

And the standards tend to evolve, shedding the parts that are less
useful or even harmful...

DTD is a good example, the external entity(which makes
XML complex to maintain and manage) is another ...

So at this point, I would not jump to the conclusion that this
is essential... I would rather keep an open mind on that...






Hi Jimmy,

Jimmy Zhang <cra...@co...> writes:

> do you see this as an essential feature of XSD?

Looking at the wide use of default attribute values in public
schemas we can conclude that the users have decided it is an
essential feature ;-). I personally also think that it is a
handy feature (just as default argument values in modern
programming languages).


hth,
-boris


-- 
Boris Kolpackov
Code Synthesis Tools CC
http://www.codesynthesis.com
Open-Source, Cross-Platform C++ XML Data Binding

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boris Kolpackov" <bo...@co...>
To: "Jimmy Zhang" <cra...@co...>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Vtd-xml-users] xerces discussion on VTD