[CREATE] schema required for XML format?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:

> Someone else tries to implement spectral data handling with the XML based
> CxF format [1] for Oyranos. The documentation of CxF3 comes with a schema.
> The CxF schema license is incompatible with open source.
>
>
As the ISO committee responsible for CxF is meeting tomorrow, can you please
explain (in as much detail as possible) what is wrong with the license for
the schema?  I will be happy to bring it up for discussion and get it fixed.

I will point out that v3 is still in development - the current standardized
version of CxF is v2.  Does the v2 schema, as distributed by the ISO, have
the same issue?



> My question is,
> Can a XML based format be properly implemented without the accompanying
> schema? Would it render a great disadvantage to be not able to use and
> distribute the available schema because of license issues? E.g. having the
> XML Namespace refering to a URL with non redistributeable content.
>
>
The schema is only necessary if you wish to validate that the XML conforms
to the grammar.

Leonard
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