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Peter,
+1 on all points!
BTW - for those interested in delving more into the bowels of context - there is
a draft technical note on the <ebContext> mechanism over at the BPSS OASIS site
in the documents folder - (but you'll need to have member access).
Thanks, DW
Quoting "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@STJUDE.ORG>:
> w3c@drrw.info writes:
> >
> > Roger,
> >
> > I don't buy into any of this layering of constraints!!
> >
> > Look here - its 2004 going on 2005 and we're still all
> > thinking like COBOL programmers. COBOL had copybooks, C had
> > .h files and structs, and Java has similar, and now XML is
> > supposed to have XSD. You can add EDI to the list too.
> >
> > It's bogus IMHO.
> >
> > The real way forward is to put *context* front and center.
> > Context drives and is at the heart of the constraint checking
> > - and being able to manage this and make it scalable.
>
> Hmm, talk about deja-vu, you must have been writing this at the same
> time I was writing my post to you. However, I'd partially disagree that
> layering of constraints is bogus; it's just one implementation of
> context resolution. I think what you really want to say is that using
> a mix of technologies buys you nothing but extra complexity?
>
> And just to reinforce the point in my other post (since I'm sure I lost
> it in excess verbiage). Context drives more than just validation: it
> drives presentation, security and data retrieval as well.
>
> <snip>other things that make sense</snip>
>
>
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