On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:50:22AM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 42 lines which said: > At this point XML is not a bad choice for data encoding. +1 > The problem in XML is that XML Schema was botched and in particular > namespaces and composition are botched. I think this could be fixed, > perhaps. There are other schema languages than the bloated W3C Schema. The most common is RelaxNG (http://www.relaxng.org/). In the IETF land, while RFC 3730 and 3981 unfortunately use W3C Schema, RFC 4287 uses RelaxNG. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf