xml-dev - Compressability (WAS RE: XML Schemas: the wrong name)

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

It is difficult when operating near one 
to escape the influence of a self-organizing, 
self-observing, non-linear system.
The W3C is a strange attractor and 
TimBL, a singularity. :-)

Did anyone ever figure out the atom 
bomb/h-bomb metaphor?  Compressability 
based on similarity.  Categorization 
occurs naturally.  Regardless of the 
notion that XML expresses HAS-A 
relationships (containment) the 
effect of naming to a heterarchy of 
processes applied to namespaces infers 
IS-A relationships.  Being able to 
determine rules for transformation among 
schemas is the key to iconization of information.  
The control properties are emergent 
given that observable patterns emerge from behavior 
and this gives rise to the control hierarchies. 
This is a key notion for people who must 
design networks of cooperating applications 
such as enabled by XLang.

Competitors to the W3C control patterns 
emerge naturally as exchanges among 
similar entities occur.  Note OASIS.

http://www.goertzel.org/papers/catpap.html

Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]

As circumstances have developed, there are a
lot more options than the W3C's creation.  But since people tend to start
looking for XML specs at the W3C, they may never even hear of the
competition...

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books