- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Mar 2000 08:25:08 +0100
- To: Dmitry Nechayev <dmitryn@genesyslab.com>
- Cc: "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
My personal view is that XML Schema is _not_ about data modelling,
it's about flexible and powerful document structure definition.
Tree-structured documents are a good transfer medium for application
data, but XML Schema as such does not specify how to map from
application data to document and back. A declarative specification
would be nice -- XSLT can manage one direction, via its element
extension mechanism.
The Cambridge Communiqué [1] gives a fuller version of this story.
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/schema-arch
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