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> However, if there is another person "X" who
> uses tomorrow different syntax to express same meaning
> or same syntax to express different meaning, etc...
> (i.e. not being conservative)
> than the best think I can do is to ignore his/her information at all.
>
> This is actually a topic map authoring in a nut shell. :-))
> Indeed, you can use RM4TM to "udermap"
> (is it a good neologism ?) any markup.
Nikita, is it a typo for "undermap" or possibly "ubermap" ;-) Not sure I
see what you mean here. Can you give a use case?
> --Nikita.
>
> Nikita Ogievetsky, nogievet@cogx.com;
> Cogitech Inc. http://www.cogx.com
> Topic Maps Tutorials and Consultanting.
> phone: 1 (917) 406 - 8734
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@dyomedea.com>
> To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 6:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Common XML (was Re: Internal entities)
>
>
> > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 15:03, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> >
> > > The "troubles" are already built into the XML 1.0 specification, To some
> > > extent, I've seen Common XML as a reponse to the conservatism that XML
> > > 1.0 _allowed_ for non-validating parsers as regards skipping external
> > > DTD subsets and entities. Much of my motivation in writing Common XML
> > > was to show readers how to avoid the landmines produced by tools being
> > > conservative in what they accept and perhaps liberal in what they
> > > discard.
> >
> > Isn't it what I have said ;-) ???
> >
> > The only way to cope with tool which are conservative in what they
> > accept and perhaps liberal in what they discard is to be conservative in
> > what you send!
> >
> > In any case, if the industry was going in that direction, we would need
> > new types of schema languages: the current ones do filter the structure
> > and content of XML documents without filtering any of the basic XML
> > features. If XML "sub-profiles" (such as defined by SOAP) were to be
> > widely used, we would also need schema languages to express the
> > constraints defined by these profiles!
> >
> > Eric
> > --
> > Freelance consulting and training.
> > http://dyomedea.com/english/
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com
> > (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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