Re: [xml-dev] Benefits of validation
Thanks. I wasn't too sure what I was after really... faced with someone questioning the need for schemas I was a little stumped on what to say. I provided the usual answers, but thought it might be helpful if I could point them to a w3schools style page or article (which I couldn't find).
On 01/02/2008, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, it's not an article, and I'm guessing that much of it is aimed at a slightly more technical audience than you might have in mind, but in 2002 I gave a DevCon talk, the slides for which Sam Ruby has kindly posted on his Intertwingly blog at [1]. At least one of the slides nets out my views on that, though at a pretty high level. In case it's of help, the contents of the pertinent slide (#9) are:
What are schemas for?
* Contracts: agreeing on formats
* Tool building: know what the data will be before the first instance shows up
* Database integration
* User interface tools
* Programming language bindings
* Validation: make sure we got what we expected
Noah
[1] http://intertwingly.net/slides/2002/devcon/SchemaSecrets.ppt
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