[Zope3-dev] XML Schema support on Zope3
Gary Poster
gary at zope.com
Fri Aug 12 14:20:02 EDT 2005
On Aug 12, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Gary Poster wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Julien Anguenot wrote:
>> I started to add an XML Schema suppport on Zope3.
>
> Great!
>
> FWIW, I looked at this a couple of years ago and concluded that,
> with a reasonable amount of work, zope interfaces could support all
> of XMLSchema, but not vice versa.
...
BTW, the obvious following question to my email is "how are they
insufficient"? I did this two years ago, and sadly don't remember
the details, so feel free to ignore me as without proof.
To me, though, it is to be expected. XMLSchema is neither omniscient
nor Turing complete. Programming languages at least have number
two. Moreover, we control zope.interface, which is a blessing and a
curse. Problems that fall out of our current framework are only an
editor-session away--and yet a lot fewer people have drunk our
zope.interface Kool-Aid--or are likely to drink--than the XML Schema
Kool-Aid.
So again, not intended to be throwing cold water, just observing.
For some use cases, such as making a system designed to be customized
by minimally-trained users (yours, AIUI), the advantages of XMLSchema
are likely more important than its disadvantages.
Gary
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