On 3/13/2005, "Gavri Fernandez" <gavri.fernandez / gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:14:52 +0900, R. Mark Volkmann <mark / ociweb.com> wrote:
>
>> find it easier to use RELAX NG instead of XML Schema.  If you need to operate
>> on existing XML Schemas, there is a tool called Trang that can convert XML
>> Schema syntax to RELAX NG syntax.  Actually, Trang performs many similar
>> conversions.
>
>Thanks for your comments.
>I do need to operate on existing schemas and it seems TRANG cannot
>convert from  XML schema to RELAX NG.
>
>From    http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html
>"A schema written in any of the supported schema languages can be
>converted into any of the other supported schema languages, except
>that W3C XML Schema is supported for output only, not for input."
>
>Or am I misunderstanding this statement?

You're right. However, all is not lost: see
http://www.relaxng.org/#conversion

>Gavri

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