Re: [xml] Status of the ISO Schematron implementation

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:27:51PM +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just tried using Schematron through xmllint (version 20624 coming
> with Ubuntu Dapper) and have noticed that:
>
>       * There seems to have quite a few bugs (<rule context="*[ id]">
>         says that *[ id] can't be parsed, <diagnostics/> elements raise
>         errors, ...).
>       * The only error message I have from xmllint is "validates" or
>         "fails to validate".
>
> I am thus wondering what is the status of the Schematron implementation
> and if I should enter bugs.

  Well I started working on it, hoping it would be simple and quick.
Unfortunately, I started to get informations about published drafts being
different from an unavailable ISO standard, various requests to get test
suites left and right were left unanswered, I lost interest, and it
seems nobody uses it or try to use libxml2 version.
  So far it has been very disapointing in spite of high initial expectations,
growing a test suite would certainely help, not sure each and every case
should be bugzilla'ed, and I'm still unclear how mush interrest there really
is for it. I don't know what's the best approach, and I don't have that much
time right now (though a slow but reliable implementation should not be too
hard based on the existing code).

Daniel

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