[relaxng-user] trang and xsd-friendly schemas

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Sep 13, 2004, at 10:08 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> Given that it's implemented in XSLT though a reasonable alternative
> would not be to use any schema language and just put the checks into 
> the
> xslt, the XSLT template handling this could easily be made to moan if
> there wasn't exactly one publisher child, and if the XSLT is doing 
> that,
> having a schema validation step doesn't really win you very much.

One obvious thing it wins is independence of any particular 
implementation; so someone could easily write a C-based processor for 
RTF documents, a Perl-based one for TeX, etc.

But aside from that, with your suggestion David, doesn't that mean 
changing styles by definition means changing XSLT code (e.g. creating 
new templates and/or stylesheets)?

If as I assume yes, I'm trying to avoid that because it seems like it'd 
just be a mess if you try to scale it.  In a future, better, world, I'd 
like users to be able to just download a single file transparently if 
they need to format a new style.  Imagine going to a web repository and 
typing "mla" and getting back whatever style file you need.

Bruce