[Gnu-arch-users] Generic data/validation formats [Was Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?]

[Charles Duffy]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 20:27, Tupshin Harper wrote:
> Certainly they are susceptible to criticism, and not making a turing 
> complete validation mechanism is one of them. But at least recognize 
> that (for better and for worse) they tried to take a "middle ground" 
> approach. XSD got a huge amount of criticism for being too complex 
> (compared to DTDs), and adoption of it has been slow, largely for that 
> reason. They were justly leery of adding even more complexity.

This is drifting quite quickly off-topic, but I'm not sure that making a
data interchange format with a turing-complete validation language
necessarily involves so much complexity -- think LISP, which is
potentially quite handy for both halves of the problem.