Excellent stuff !

I have passed it to the other team members of our CDISC "XML Governance 
Team" (CDISC provides XML-based standards for use in clinical research).
Together with the information that Apache Xerces-J is working on an 
implementation, this might mean that we move all our schemas to version 1.1 
early next year.
Our standards will highly benefit from this as:
- a good number of the rules in our standards can currently not be expressed 
with XML-Schema 1.0, but they can with Schematron, so moving to 1.1 is a 
"great step for mankind"
- our extensions use xsd:redefine which is not (correctly) supported by 
XMLSpy (but is by most other validators). This causes a problem as some 
authorities like the FDA have standardized on XMLSpy.
Presume (but haven't looked into yet) that "override" is more powerful. Hope 
that XMLSpy will support that.

Speaking about MS parsers. Is there any news there about future support by 
Microsoft for XML-Schema 1.1? E.g. are there any .Net validating parsers in 
development ?

Best regards,

Jozef Aerts
CDISC volunteer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
To: <xmlschema-dev@w...>
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 4:38 PM
Subject: ANN: XML Schema 1.1 for Managers



Hi Folks,

I created a tutorial, for managers, on XML Schema 1.1.

Its purpose is to give an overview of the new features of XML Schema 1.1, 
without getting into its syntax, and to show how the new features can 
benefit a business.

http://www.xfront.com/xml-schema-1-1/xml-schema-1-1-for-managers.ppt

Comments welcome.

/Roger