Re: analysis of YANG vs. RELAX NG

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

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.