- From: David Ezell <David_E3@VERIFONE.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:23:57 -0400
- To: "Fortuno, Adam" <Adam.Fortuno@Metavante.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Adam: (Agreeing with Pete.) Part of the problem is that XML can be used for many different purposes, and my experience is that various graphical models can be helpful in various circumstances. For instance, ERDs are quite useful if your basic application structure is based on a relational database, and you're using XML to move that data around. OTOH UML diagrams can be useful (like those in newer versions of XML Spy) for object serialization scenarios or for modeling document relationships. Stylus Studio and oXygen are nice tools as well with their own ways of representing things. As far as I can tell, no one has yet invented a perfect tool/language in which to model the whole of XML. If you find one (and I'm sure there will be one at some point) please let me know! For now, I'm afraid you have to choose one that best fits the needs of your application. Best regards, David Ezell -----Original Message----- From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Fortuno, Adam Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:12 AM To: Pete Cordell Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org Subject: RE: [BULK] Re: Data Modeling Pete, I was looking for a graphical diagramming method. I understand what you're saying. Thanks none the less! A- -----Original Message----- From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Pete Cordell Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 9:08 AM To: Fortuno, Adam; xmlschema-dev@w3.org Subject: [BULK] Re: Data Modeling Importance: Low Are you looking for things like XML Schema, Relax-NG, Schematron and so on? Or are you looking for graphical methods? If the latter, I'm not aware of any formal methods, but a number of tools do represent schemas using graphical methods. However, in my experience, in most cases the graphical representations only capture a fraction of the information you need, and while sufficient for a screen based representation with which you can click to get more information, they probably don't translate well into paper based representations. HTH, Pete. ============================================= Pete Cordell Codalogic for XML Schema to C++ data binding visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ ============================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fortuno, Adam" <Adam.Fortuno@Metavante.com> To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:53 PM Subject: Data Modeling All, Is there a popular notation for modeling a vocabulary? I'm accustom to ERD's for database data modeling. I tend to use that for data modeling XML vocabularies, but I want to know if there is a better way to do this. A-
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