[whatwg] [WF2] Web Forms 2.0: Repetition and type ID

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2005, at 05:17, fantasai wrote:
> 
> > While we're on the topic.. what sorts of things would HTML5 
> > conformance checkers have to do that is impossible to express in 
> > schema languages?
> 
> I'm interested in the narrowing question: What sorts of things would 
> HTML5 conformance checkers have to do that are impossible to express in 
> the combination of RELAX NG and Schematron?

I'm afraid my familiarity with those languages is not enough to be able to 
answer that (especially in the case of Schematron, which I have never 
examined), but at a guess, the things I mentioned in my last e-mail are 
not expressable in those languages:

   http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2005-July/004181.html

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