>  Schemas are not finalised as a recommendation yet (and certainly not since
>  October!), they are just a candidate rec at the moment. Plus they are

True, I mistyped.

>  *complex*. The current schema implementations are from my recollection:
>  from the Apache team (actually developed by either Sun or IBM, IIRC), from
>  Microsoft, from Oracle, from the author of the Schema spec or from XML
>  Spy.
> 
>  All of these have lots of money behind them (or in Henry Thompson's case,
>  a bit of a competitive advantage). If you have similar funding,
>  please feel free to offer to pay someone to develop a compliant validator
>  :-)

Possibly not that funny.

My company _may_ be interested in funding such an exersise. If anyone is
seriously intested in this then they can get in contact with me offline.

> 
>  Sadly the only way to work this right now is some sort of interface to
>  another language (Win32::OLE, Java.pm, Inline::Python).
> 
>  > The contents listing of the new O'Reilly book doesn't seem to mention
>  > schemas at all, no xsd mentioned in the index.
> 
>  Rusty didn't cover schemas as it was deemed too new. We discussed this but
>  there just wasn't a) time, and b) space in the book to cover such a large
>  spec in the detail it deserves.
> 
>  > Can anyone point me at any online resourses to do with Schemas
>  and Perl ?
> 
>  Not Schemas, per-se, but Schematron validation is available with Kip
>  Hampton's XML::Schematron.

I'll have a look at this.

Regards

Dave
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