Hi Yves,

If I am not misreading you, things can basically go in any direction depending
on
who is making the choices. Though you believe it could definitely be useful in
terms of providing a choice given the proper circumstances.

Thanks for your view on the matter.

Raymond

> > I was wondering if you could give me a little information about the
> > rationale behind choosing RelaxNG as the one-stop schema for ITS.
>
> Actually Relax NG is not the "one-stop schema for ITS". The ITS vocabulary is
provided
> in 4 formats: XML DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG compact form, and Relax NG XML
form.
> See http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#its-schemas.
>
> We did use some blocks in Relax NG notation embedded inside the TEI/ODD source
> document that was used to generate the specification and the schemas. I am not
> aware of a specific rational (related to Relax NG) for that. I think it is
simply because
> some of us had already XSLT transformation templates we could re-use for this.
>
> So, I think it is certainly useful to have the 3 schema formats available for
a given
> specification, when there is time and resource to create and maintain them.
>
> If, for some reason, providing the 3 formats is not possible, I'm not sure
there
> is a rational that can be made to choose one over the other: They all have
> advantages and drawbacks. It is probably matter of preferences.