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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit: > The fallacy here is that a document has some sort of processing > expectation, but this is simply not true in the heterogeneous world > of the Internet. The document is what it is, and will be processed > differently by different actors. I likely do not want to do the same > thing with the same document as you do, nor is it necessary that I do > so. The demand that we provide and adhere to schemas is often little > more than a demand that we process documents in only certain > preapproved ways. That is a fundamentally limited perspective. It may > work within one program or a small organization. However, it does not > scale to the needs of large organizations and groups of organizations > with different, unique objectives. Walter Perry, are you listening? Your Fichte has been found! -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." jcowan@r... Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.reutershealth.com Abracadabralike / schemas must die!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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