Re: [xml-dev] Need a language whiz: An XML Schema "specifies" how data is to be structured? "describes"? "constrains"?

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Michael Kay <>
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bryan rasmussen <>
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2018-01-06T09:13:12Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Need a language whiz: An XML Schema "specifies" how data is to be structured? "describes"? "constrains"?
> 
> Theoretically, although I have never seen it with XSD and would
> probably think it was a weird use of the language, you could have
> multiple schemas for validating documents in the same namespace.

I have seen one client who was attempting to do this: essentially applying stricter validation to "finished" documents than to "work in progress". It proved quite difficult to manage the maintenance of different versions of the same schema; I think this is something that would benefit from better support in languages and tools.

Michael Kay
Saxonica