- From: Jean-Jacques Dubray <jjd@eigner.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:27:57 -0500
- To: "'Champion, Mike'" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Cc: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
>>a) do people agree that the complexity of the XML-related specs is a >>significant problem? [JJ] It is not so much their complexity which is a problem but rather the combination of complexity and their ability to mutate at arbitrary time to totally different form. There is also a lack of formalism to define the semantics of a specification. We need a meta-specification that specifies all the artifacts that need to be present in an XML-based specification. A UML diagram comes to mind. Without these standard artifacts, it requires more investment from the people that need to understand these specifications. My two centimes JJ-
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