When I was involved with the XML Schema Working Group, I sometimes suggested a wiki as a way to hash out some of the more difficult issues, but nothing ever came of it. I don’t know the circumstances of its creation, but now there is a public wiki space for XML Schema.
Sadly, no one has made any edits after the initial contributions. I guess the once-confusing topics have largely been handled by implementors so that most users don’t need to worry about them.
I finally got around to “putting my money where my mouth is” and contributing a page on Unique Particle Attribution. It took much more time than I expected and still needs some work, like how to disambiguate content models, but it’s something.
… I wonder what ever happened to that promising start-up whose mission was to resolve UPA violations … Was it nondeterminism.com? …
nondeterminism.com remains in stealth mode. Look for an AJAX-based disambiguator in the early third quarter… you wouldn’t accept ambiguous bussiness processing rules, so why should you accept ambiguous schemas? That’s our tagline.
Great to hear, Pat. I heard Microsoft is interested in your technology.