[CREATE] schema required for XML format?

[Cyrille Berger]

On Monday 19 April 2010, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> 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?
Not really. The main point of schema in an application is to validate the XML 
file. I might be wrong, but I don't think many applications tries to validate 
a XML file before reading it. (I tend to try to be able to parse even invalid 
XML files).

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Cyrille Berger