Hi Jason, Let me be the first to say that I very much appreciate your feedback, despite the disagreements we sometimes have. I for one still gladly invite you for a cup of coffee (or any other beverage) next OGF :) The discussion this afternoon was indeed a bit heated, but I think we both can separate feelings from the technical discussion. Perhaps a phone call may help. I know there is an NMC call scheduled this Thursday, otherwise I would have proposed an NML call at that time. There is still a lot to say regarding your previous mail, I may try to summarise it in a separate mail, but I'll gladly postpone that for now if you feel a short break serves the discussion. There's one off-hand remark that caught my eye:
to my knowledge a parser can only verify against a single schema at any given time.
To my knowledge it is possible for a parser to validate against multiple schema at the same time. I fear this alone may be responsible for quite a lot of our misunderstandings in this discussion. For example, to me that meant I saw no functional difference between an element in the same namespace and an element in a different namespace, while to you they are clearly very different (and I now understand my they are different to you; I previously didn't understand that). I also fear that the whole discussion at the first half of your previous email was just an exponent of this misunderstanding. At least, reading back I can now understand where your argument was coming from. Let's hope we can find the other underlying differences in assumptions we sure have (preferably with less lengthy mails ;) ). If you know a magical way to find these differences, let me know ... All the best, Freek