On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 16:50, Tim Bray wrote: > Several people had trouble with thesis 14 "Namespace documents > should not be schemas"; mostly it seemed, based on lack of agreement > as to what a schema is or should be. I've redrafted that one to > make it clear that we're talking about the mostly-syntactic schemas > of today (e.g. DTDs, XML Schemas), what the world calls schemas > today - and put the word "schemas" in quotes in the thesis statement. I'm not sure point 14 is strictly necessary, as it seems mostly to be a special case of point 13. "Namespace documents should not favor the needs of any one application or application class" seems to make it plain that validation-oriented schemas shouldn't be privileged in any event. Between 12 (which I consider critical) and 13, it looks like namespace documents should have a human-readable form and should promote the distribution of a diverse set of resources useful for different kinds of applications - including schemas for validating applications, but giving them no special privilege. That sounds good to me, whatever "schemas" may mean. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.comReceived on Monday, 18 February 2002 23:17:38 GMT
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