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Re: W3C meta-schema - useless?

From: ht@---.--.--.-- (----- -. --------)
To: NULL
Date: 9/1/2005 10:48:00 AM
Ian Pilcher writes:

> I was just wondering if anyone has ever been able to use the W3C meta-
> schema (from http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema) to actually validate a
> schema, including the meta-schema itself.

Yes -- XSV [1] uses it to validate every schema document that comes in
for use.  

> The tools I've tried (xmllint from libxml2 and whatever parser Sun's
> Java 1.5.0 uses) barf at various points.  Is the meta-scehma flawed, or
> does it just push the parsers too hard?

Surprised that Xerces doesn't accept the sForS -- error messages?

ht

[1] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html
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