Re: webont-01 'rename schema' proposal

>[I was unable to read danbri's original message... but responding to 
>the quoted version here]
>
>[[
>schema n. (pl. schemata // or schemas)
>1 a synopsis, outline, or diagram.
>2 a proposed arrangement.
>3 Logic a syllogistic figure.
>4 (in Kantian philosophy) a conception of what is common to all 
>members of a class; a general type or essential form.
>[Greek skhema -atos ‘form, figure’]
>]]
>-- the Concise Oxford Dictionary
>
>"schema" is, to my mind, a perfectly respectable generic term.  I 
>don't think that because it's used in the phrase "XML schema" we 
>should be bullied out of deploying the equally reasonable term "RDF 
>schema".

Right on. I absolutely agree.  That word already had about ten 
technical meanings before XML was even thought of.

Pat


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