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Sometimes I think people are too young to remember when
markup was a verb instead of a noun. They would come
to us with a set of documents and say, "Write a DTD
for these." and we would ask, "Are these exhaustive
examples?" and they would say, "What? Oh, don't worry,
we can fix it if we find more." and we would and they did.
Not much has changed.
But the tag sprinkling process is a good model of why
schemas can be treated as emergent controls.
len
From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com]
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:25, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> And I'd rather have a spec written in prose than a schema any day of the
week.
Perhaps it depends on how readable a schema language it's using ;-) But
seriously, I don't think it's an either/or situation. I want a spec to
have both prose and a schema. If it doesn't have any prose, I'm going
to have to guess the semantics; if it doesn't have a schema, it's very
likely I'm going to have to guess some syntactic details.
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