In his Extreme "first person" talk yesterday, Patrick Durusau asked some of the right questions about the recent explosive battles over standardizing XML generated by Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org. I can't share his conviction, though, that getting through this firefight...
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Thoughts on Schematron headers for processing ODF and OOXML, with a C# URL Resolver that handles ZIP files like some Java resolvers. The new XML-in-ZIP documents present a new challenge: constraints that formerly would have been kept in a single document are now split into multiple documents. When the basic information is kept in a single XML file, validation is reasonably straightforward.The current range of schema tools support these kinds of intra-document invariants quite well. But no document is an island, so Schematron also supports a range of intra-document constraints, but it may be time to enhance it to support the XML-in-ZIP issues better.
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