• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabulariesto Implement Large (Complex) Systems
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:27:10 -0500
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Roger L. Costello wrote:

> What do you (xml-dev'ers) think about all this?  Can you think of other
> approaches?  /Roger

Design is inherently a kind of optimziation. What would you like your 
design to optimize?

Do you need a clearly defined relationship between the complex 
structures in the new vocabluary and the complex structures in the old 
vocabulary? If so, I think Len's approach is much better. A Book and a 
PostalAddress are "things" in both the old and new vocabularies.

I missed the original thread, so I'm not sure what Peter was trying to 
optimize. Inferencing? Aceesibility to design tools developed for 
relational databases? Just guessing from the example you gave...

Jonathan

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