- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:31:03 +0100
- To: BANBURY David <David_BANBURY@rta.nsw.gov.au>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
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Documents structure and data models are, or should be, distinct. XSD
is designed for use in defining the structure of XML documents.
Unless your data _is_ a set of documents, or naturally isomorphic to a
set of documents, starting out by trying to model it with XSD is
unlikely to be a good idea.
I would recommend modelling your data first, then looking at your
document requirements together with your data model to define your
document structure.
ht
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Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Half-time member of W3C Team
10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk
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