- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 07:32:16 -0500
- To: haustein@kimo.cs.uni-dortmund.de
- CC: xml-dev@xml.org, xml-uri@w3.org
Stefan Haustein wrote: [...] > > I think that on the contrary, it's important that the schema spec > > leads the way toward the self-describing web. > > I think most of us just need some nice DTD replacement > including packaging. Why don't you try a layered approach > and build more advanced features later on top of something > more simple? Could you sketch an example of what that would look like? I suspect what you're talking about can done with some combination of XML Schema, XLink, and RDF, but I don't think I have a good handle on what folks mean by "packaging" so I'd like to look at a specific, if hypothetical, example. I anticipate an objection along the lines of "I don't want to depend on schemas for this... schemas are too complex" and I can sympathize with complaints about the complexity of schemas... but I suspect it should be simple to ignore the parts of schemas you're not interested in. Anyway... if you can just cook up an example... or maybe 3 examples: a dead-simple one and two examples showing a few wrinkles, it would probably help me get my head around "packaging". -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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