- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:36:03 +0100
- To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
- Cc: "xmlschema-dev" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> I have written a paper[1] which shows a way of designing an XML Schema > so that it places no restrictions on the vocabulary that instance > documents employ, and which facilitates the growth of data in a highly > distributed fashion. Very interesting. Nevertheless... As you mention, this kind of application is what RDF is meant for. While I'm also struggling a bit at the moment how to make effective use of RDF (i.e. how to efficiently reconstruct conventional objects from a set of RDF statements), I'm not sure I see much sense in emulating the kind of functionality RDF provides with XML Schema. Currently, the main benefits of providing an XML Schema along with our data are: 1) Allow simple code generation a la JAXP, so people don't have to bother with SAX/DOM. 2) Allow access to certain data through web services. As far as I can see, the kind of open schemas you describe wouldn't work very well with either use case, so I'll rather use XML Schema in the classical way, and provide a separate RDF view of our data. -- Eric Jain
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