Re: [xml-dev] Announce: XML Schema, The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML

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Re: [xml-dev] Announce: XML Schema, The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML
Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> For example, at the ISO DSDL meeting we had a suggested requirement 
> from a large European publishing house that we can validate than
> a mixed content element in the Dutch language should only contain
> Dutch characters.

An interesting idea.  All schema languages known to me are weak in
supporting mixed content; even RNG, which is the strongest, cannot
express this constraint.  (I don't really know Schematron: can it
cope?)

It also turns out to be a hard problem to say what "Dutch characters"
are.  Even English has corner cases like coöperate and façade.

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