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Ask HN: Are people out there still using XML Schema?

by jviotti on 8/9/24, 11:11 PM with 4 comments

• by mdaniel on 8/9/24, 11:20 PM

  "using" is one of those weird words: the Maven XML build file (and its settings, and a few others) still have versioned XML Schemas: e.g. https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd and its friends https://maven.apache.org/xsd/

  If you mean "stood up a consumer-facing service whose contract is dictated by WSDL and/or XML Schema," then I'm guessing the broad answer will be no because it's not kewl

  As a TSC member of JSON Schema, the best DX thing you can push through would be the xsi:schemaLocation replacement because right now mapping files to their schema is some damn tomfoolery

• by freds39 on 8/10/24, 3:48 AM

  Peppol (https://peppol.org/) for the exchange of electronic business documents

• by _1tan on 8/10/24, 5:44 AM

  Heavily used within energy industry systems and standards we have to work with in Germany to integrate with. A couple of examples:

  - Electronic delivery receipts for metering hardware (from standard body)

  - API spec for smart meter interfacing software (from vendor, feels legacy-like)

  - API to interact with official sub-CAs (from government authority)

  - Definitions for EDIFACT files (from standard body)