On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Rajeev, > > Only one of the projects from last year's idea list was completed for GSoC > 2009. All of the others are still available and have posted to JIRA as > potential ideas for this year. I just mentioned a few other possibilities on > the mailing list [1]. > Thanks Michael for your reply. I had a serious look at the mail archives only after I posted the previous mail and noticed that there have been a few students already working on some of the ideas. I'll try to work on something avoiding overlappings. > > I have to admit I haven't heard of DSD before so can't really comment on > it. On a quick glance of the spec it looks like another schema language > though not immediately obvious to me how it differentiates itself from the > other existing ones. > > Yes. It is another schema language. You can find a quick comparison of DSD with other schema languages here [1] [2]. Given its extremely low popularity, there's no wonder that you haven't heard of it. But on the other hand, one reason for its low popularity can be that almost no one has been seriously trying to implement it despite its advantages (it's been there for several years - almost for a decade I think). That's why I (and also Udayanga) wanted to know whether Xerces community has any plans to implement it. [1] http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/XML/schemas/dsd-overview.html [2] http://www.brics.dk/DSD/ Thanks. Rajeev
