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>>>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> First of all, I don't like RELAX-NG Compact at all. It looks like |
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> someone tried hard to combine some variation of BNF, DOCTYPE and |
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> something else in order to get something that is both readable and |
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> compact. And got a result that doesn't meet either criteria. It |
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> looks like some terrible mixture of over-verbose descriptive text |
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> format with a lot of enigmatic symbols that are not even clear what |
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> they apply to. |
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> Secondly, RELAX-NG and XML Schema look pretty similar in volume. |
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> However, XML Schema looks definitely more readable, robust and |
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> XML-ish (and doesn't use camelcase!). Furthermore, as far as I'm |
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> aware XML Schema is more widely supported (not sure if that applies |
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> to any tools we're considering). |
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> Therefore, I'd suggest we just ship properly hand-written XML |
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> Schema, with some nice comments. I don't see a reason to ship any |
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> RELAX-NG files unless we actually have tools that support only that. |
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Emacs nXML mode supports only RNC. Do we have a tool (i.e. a package |
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in the tree) for automatic conversion from XML Schema to RNC? |
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Ulrich |
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