[topicmapmail] XML Schema for XTM DTD
Bandholtz, Thomas
TBandholtz@koeln.sema.slb.com
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:26:31 +0100
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> From: Murray Altheim
> What is needed is not a single XTM document but a test suite. This
> is something that OASIS has done in the past, and it can and should
> be done for XSD and RELAX-NG versions to be sure that they truly
> conform across multiple implementations and across the test suite.
> A schema is definitively useless if it can't be relied upon to
> properly constrain documents.
That's right. Has this test suite been used to verify the XTM DTD?
Then there should be a couple of XTM documents, valid and intentionally
unvalid, that we might use to assure that the schema is equivalent to the
DTD.
Thomas Bandholtz
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Murray Altheim </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> What is needed is not a single XTM document but a test suite. This</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> is something that OASIS has done in the past, and it can and should</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> be done for XSD and RELAX-NG versions to be sure that they truly</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> conform across multiple implementations and across the test suite.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> A schema is definitively useless if it can't be relied upon to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> properly constrain documents.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>That's right. Has this test suite been used to verify the XTM DTD?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Then there should be a couple of XTM documents, valid and intentionally unvalid, that we might use to assure that the schema is equivalent to the DTD.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thomas Bandholtz</FONT>
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