Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
At 12:07 AM 11/2/99 -0600, Paul Prescod wrote: >By the time you have a schema for your domain you have mapped out your >communal understanding of that domain. This is a surprising and counter-intuitive assertion that needs some supporting evidence. I disagree. I think large parts of the the "communal understanding" live in wetware between human ears and in messy procedural code. >In many areas that *is* cracking >the nut. Where I work, people aren't satisfied until there's running code that does useful stuff, and the schema-ware is an essential but fairly small component of getting there. > As a practical example, consider word processing. By now there >are dozens of word processors and desktop publishers. It would be a >massive effort to come to understand their commonalities and define the >"universal DTP language." Huh? Weren't we talking about schemas? -T. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
|
