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- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 10:44:25 -0600
David Megginson wrote:
>
> How does the schema tell me that foo represents a container for a
> collection of objects, bar represents an object, and hack and flurb
> represent the object's properties?
It probably doesn't, but Matthew is right that you could imagine a
schema language that DOES
> Object exchange, while
> important, represents only one of many layers that can be build on top
> of XML, and if XML Schemas start trying to solve high-level problems
> for every specific domain, it will become an unimplementable mess.
I would argue that every domain, including documents, has a concept of
"objects" and a concept of "properties." XML's inability to represent
this is, in my opinion, a major flaw. It would be nice if schemas could
work around that flaw but I still think that there is a place in the
world for an instance-only syntax for objects and properties.
> RDF already made a similar mistake by mixing together a spec for
> object encoding in XML with a spec for representing knowledge about
> Web pages.
I agree that this was a mistake and it befuddled me for a while. I see
it as a different situation, however, because I can't imagine a problem
domain that does NOT need to know about structured objects and their
properties.
--
Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more
specific." --Lily Tomlin
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