Re: Non-Deterministic Schemas

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From: rox.scott (roxscott_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:39:08 -0800

I am not sure why this post has incurred such an emotional response -- I'll
try to restate the question again in plain English to avoid further scourge...

Does Microsoft have plans to allow "non-deterministic" schemas in a future
release?

--scott

"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" wrote:

> Are the limitations valid?
>
> What an odd question.
>
> By the standard of the developers of the SOM, the limitations are valid.
> By the standard of the developers of a competing parser that doesn't have
> that limitation, they are not valid.
> The W3C standard doesn't pick one side or the other, AFAIK.
>
> So... what standard are you measuring with? The one that says 'yes,' the
> one that says 'no,' or the one that says 'maybe?'
>
> Who cares!
>
> The international body failed to meet their goals. You are far more likely
> to get them to change the schema than you are to get MS to change the SOM.
>
> Pick your battles.
>
> Reread my previous post for a list of suggestions on how to work around this
> problem.
> --
> --- Nick Malik [Microsoft]
> MCSD, CFPS, Certified Scrummaster
> http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik
>
> Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
> representative of my employer.
> I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a
> programmer helping programmers.
> --
> "rox.scott" <roxscott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5966D18E-1D36-4360-ADC8-423CA21D9DFC@microsoft.com...
> > > Clearly, one of the main goals of publishing a schema is
> interoperability.
> >
> > Clearly, one of the main goals of publishing a platform is functionality.
> >
> > Hence, my question is ... are the limitations of the Microsoft SOM (as
> > described in the MSDN article -- i don't need to post my schema here)
> valid?
> > or not?
>
>
>

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