Making RELAX NG schemas normative rather than non-normative

[MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)]

> > While the JTC 1 rules permit electronic attachments to standards, the
> > contents of such attachments must also be included in the "printed" version.
> > As such, we have electronic schemas, which are reproduced in Annexes. For
> > the normative XSD schemas that means we have two versions, one electronic
> > and one printed, which can lead to the two being out-of-sync. 
> 
> With current technology it is fairly easy to dynamically include
> electronic schema into "printed version" preventing any out-of-sync issues.

I think that this issue has much more serious impacts than making RNG
schemas normative (on top of XSD normative schemas).  We should 
definitely stop maintaining schemas as MS Word documents, but 
rather always automatically generate schemas from electronic schemas.
As demonstrated by the recent consolidation, schemas maintained as MS
Word documents are error prone.

Cheers,
Makoto

P.S. Blackout today has ended 1 hour ago, but I will have another (for 5
hours?) tomorrow.  Small earthquakes still continue.   Suicidal attempts 
for cooling atomic power supplies are going on.