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RE: analysis of YANG vs. RELAX NG

"Natale, Bob" <RNATALE@mitre.org> Tue, 27 November 2007 18:37 UTC

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Hi Paul,

And online access to the book is available via
http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/.

(I have not checked whether any newer print version of the book might
be available.)

Cheers,
BobN

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:phoffman@imc.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:55 AM
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Subject: Re: analysis of YANG vs. RELAX NG

At 9:48 PM -0800 11/26/07, Rohan Mahy wrote:
>Writing a schema language is a lot of work, and I can't imagine the 
>IETF designing one that would only be used by NETCONF. RELAX NG has 
>existing tools and parsers, has additional integral types (ex: URI, 
>dates, and times), and was written by a large group of folks who 
>have tons of experience designing schema languages.

FWIW, I bought a copy of the book "RELAX NG" by van der Vlist and 
found it to be quite easy to understand. After reading it (well, 
about half of it), I found RELAX NG much less threatening than after 
reading a bunch of web resources.

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