- From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:19:34 GMT
- To: matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk
- CC: rden@loc.gov, www-zig@w3.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:21:58 -0000 > From: "Matthew Dovey" <matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk> > > > (It's frustrating to spend so much energy developing elegant, > > high-quality, and well-engineered protocol mechanisms, to > > solve problems for which version 3 was invented, only to be > > told later that we have to solve the problem in the context > > of version 2, when version 2 simply isn't suited to solving these > > problems. > > Version 2 predates XML by a few years - it isn't surprising that > version 2 isn't well suited to support XML. All true, but the problem we're trying to solve here is nothing to do with XML _per se_ -- it's simply a question of how to specify what schema you want your records back in (whether that's a GRS-1 schema, and XML Schema or something else again). The frustrating thing is that v3 has a fine way of doing this, but we are not planning to use it. (The XML part of this is that we _extended_ the pre-existing V3 schema specification functionality to allow schema names, as used in XML, as well as schema OIDs. But that's really by the by.) > V3 has been on the streets for 8 years now (a company such as MS > would probably have declared end of life on anythnig older than that > ;-) ), so saying the v2 doesn't support XML and that you need to > move to v3 if you want XML doesn't seem that unreasonable to me! I agree. Shame, then, that the Bath profile doesn't say that. > Should I duck now? Probably, but I will too. <duck> _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage" -- Japan's announcement of surrender, 1945. -- Listen to my wife's new CD of kids' music, _Child's Play_, at http://www.pipedreaming.org.uk/childsplay/
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