Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@i...] > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:39 AM > To: 'Ronald Bourret'; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Partyin' like it's 1999 > > When namespaces first came to be, the examples were for > things like dropping SVG into the middle of an HTML page, > including MathML into X3D, etc. Do many browsers really > enable namespace integration like that? Well, sure, that's > what IE does by combining a CSS declaration for the behavior > with the namespace. > .Net enables their ASP web browser controls, VML etc. > like that, in the instance. Yet I don't find schemas > for these perhaps because the schema would document the > object framework. > > But yes, in terms of actually sharing data types across > communities of interest, the communities aren't that > interested. Would you say that there are multiple communities within the US federal government that *are* very interested? Kind Regards, Joseph Chiusano Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World > From the perspective of the legendary > lone schema hacker, it's easier to include these the old > fashioned way: entities. Where I think this might be > insufficient is testing contract based requirements that > point to an ROA specifying particular schemas, ie, the sort > of thing we get in government contract work. > > len > > > From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...] > > Yes. I've seen it in at least one other organization as well. > My point is that it hasn't crossed schema boundaries and > become universal in the way people thought it might. (There > might very well be a good reason for this. For example, given > the potential complexity of addresses, somebody designing for > a local market might be making a very good design decision to > ignore all that complexity and simply encode the address > schema that fits their locale.) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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> > >
|
