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04/24/2001 Archived Entry: "XML schema catches heat"

ZDNet: eWEEK: XML schema catches heat

After more than two years of development, the World Wide Web Consortium could be only weeks away from releasing its long-awaited XML Schema specification. But despite its release, the specification, which is designed to automate data exchange between companies, is coming under fire.

Now in the final review phase by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, the specification, according to critics, is far too complex—so complex that it has driven several XML experts to create alternative and lighter-weight schemas. Furthermore, some W3C insiders are even calling for future versions to be incompatible with this first release so as not to repeat what they say are the flaws of the first version.