December 16, 2003
"Standard"?
What's the point in creating a standard if you make people pay to see it?
RELAX NG is now an international standard, according to a recent post on the relaxng-user mailing list. You can get it from the ISO web site, but it costs 120 swiss francs (that's 78 euros or £55).
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with this. If the W3C can release their recommendations for free, and the IETF can release their RFCs for free, then why would I want to shell out £55 to read about RELAX-NG? It may well have technical advantages over XML Schema, but if it's not free then technical advantages are not enough.
A draft version of the specification is available, but there's no guarantee how long it'll be there or how truly it will reflect the specification in the future.
Posted by savs at December 16, 2003 3:13 PM