[relaxng-user] Re: RELAX NG book, very cheap

[MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:49:32 -0500
Mitch Amiano <mamiano at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I wonder: is there any
>source that can even hint at the rate at which RelaxNG is actually
>being adopted? 

XHTML 2.0 (W3C Draft) and RDF (W3C recommendation) uses RELAX NG and 
does not use W3C XML Schema (at least now).  SVG 1.2 uses RELAX NG as 
well as W3C XML Schema.  TEI, DocBook, and UBL use RELAX NG as well 
as W3C XML Schema.   The OASIS Open Office XML Format also uses RELAX NG 
as well as W3C XML Schema.  And this list is not exhaustive. Please add
more. > RNG fans

In Japan, there are very many users of RELAX NG.  I went to Java
Technology Conference in Tokyo last week.  To our surprise, the BOF 
for RELAX NG (by Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Tomoharu Asami) was completely 
full, and 40% of the attendees were users of RELAX NG.

I admit that the number of RELAX NG users is significantly fewer than 
that of W3C XML Schema users.  However, as far as I know, users of 
RELAX NG are very happy and strongly committed to it.  I thus do not
think that RELAX NG will disappear, although it might not overshadow 
W3C XML Schema in the near future.


Cheers,

-- 
MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <EB2M-MRT at asahi-net.or.jp>