Re: [xml] xmlSchema : enumeration and libxml

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 25.05.2004 19:03, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> > If you must use XML Schemas, then you must use a different parser
> > which 
> > fully supports it. I recomend Apache Xerces.
>
>  What a load of crap.  I'm using xml schemas just fine.  There are
> parts that aren't
> implemented in libxml2 but that doesn't mean you MUST use a different
> parser.

Not even if you need exactly this unimplemented functionality? Besides, 
it was just one of the alternatives.

> Taking a attitude like this means that no-one will ever bother to use
> the xml schema
> support, so the missing parts will never get done b/c no one is
> interested.  That's
> hardly a productive approach.

The support for XML Schema in libxml is not complete. The error message 
indicated that one of the unimplemented parts was hit. When you need the 
functionality which isn't implemented, then you can implement it, wait 
for someone else to implement it, or use some other parser which has it. 
Those are simple facts, it has nothing to do with attitude.

So, what in all of it was the bit which upset you? Was it because I 
recomended another parser to someone? Should I behave competitive to 
other free software projects in the terms of keeping the users at all 
costs? When someone needs functionality we don't (yet) have, is it a sin 
to point her to a project which has it now?

Ciao,
Igor