alt Hacker NewsGiven that that is had strong schema XSD verification built in, where you can tell in an instant whether or not the document is correct; it’s the right tool for a majority of jobs.
My experience has been the people complaining about it were simply not using automated tools to handle it. It’s be like people complaining that “binaries/assembly are too hard to handle” and never using a disassembler.
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phlakaton • today at 2:37 PM
I'm happy to use XSD for certain situations, but it has some frustrating inabilities and complexities.
The impression I've got from the last 20 years is that a chunk of the XML community gave up on XSD and went to RELAX-NG instead, but only got halfway there.
> can tell in an instant whether or not the document is correct
Speaking of "correctness"... It seems to me people almost never mention that while schema verification can detect a lot of issues, in the end it cannot replace actual content validation. There are often arbitrarily complicated constraints on data that requires custom code to validate.
This is analogous to the ridiculous claim that type checking compilers can tell you whether the program is correct or not.