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Peter, +1 on all points! BTW - for those interested in delving more into the bowels of context - there is a draft technical note on the <ebContext> mechanism over at the BPSS OASIS site in the documents folder - (but you'll need to have member access). Thanks, DW Quoting "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>: > w3c@d... writes: > > > > Roger, > > > > I don't buy into any of this layering of constraints!! > > > > Look here - its 2004 going on 2005 and we're still all > > thinking like COBOL programmers. COBOL had copybooks, C had > > .h files and structs, and Java has similar, and now XML is > > supposed to have XSD. You can add EDI to the list too. > > > > It's bogus IMHO. > > > > The real way forward is to put *context* front and center. > > Context drives and is at the heart of the constraint checking > > - and being able to manage this and make it scalable. > > Hmm, talk about deja-vu, you must have been writing this at the same > time I was writing my post to you. However, I'd partially disagree that > layering of constraints is bogus; it's just one implementation of > context resolution. I think what you really want to say is that using > a mix of technologies buys you nothing but extra complexity? > > And just to reinforce the point in my other post (since I'm sure I lost > it in excess verbiage). Context drives more than just validation: it > drives presentation, security and data retrieval as well. > > <snip>other things that make sense</snip> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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