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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Hanson [mailto:elh@cs.pdx.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:02 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> Cc: 'Michael Champion'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Partyin' like it's 1999
>
> Bullard, Claude L (Len) (len.bullard@intergraph.com) wrote:
> > A radical suggestion: maybe what they really need are binaries and
> > the creation of a binary specification can provide a subset
> of what is
> > expressible in XML. They aren't the same, just that it might be
> > easier to create a subset outside XML The Spec. My
> intuition is that
> > the shock would come from elsewhere, such as new chip design or the
> > sudden emergence of reliable telepathy.
> > (Why yes, the siddhi are real; they just aren't reliable, Sherman.)
>
> > Of the cases presented, isn't the really gnarly one namespaces?
> > In other words, if the edges of that were tidied, how much
> pain would
> > go away?
> >
> > Ok. Any parties interested in posting their favorite five bad
> > problems with XML in order here? I wonder what the consensus is on
> > the top two. (XML, not XML apps like
> > XSD.)
>
> 1. There is no way to look up, discover and retrieve the
> library of resources that support with a namespace-qualified element.
> If you come across a piece of data, there may be hundreds of
> supporting resources like XSL transformations, schemas,
> xforms, text documentation, etc. We need a way to link the
> resources to the data. This is the biggest problem with XML
> today.
Some of this capability already exists natively in the OASIS/ebXML
Registry standard, and some is being implemented in the future through a
Technical Note (that I am working on) within the OASIS/ebXML Registry
Technical Committee that describes a standard mechanism for registering
fine-grained artifacts such as elements, attributes, data types, and
namespace identifiers, and associating these fine-grained artifacts with
other fine- and course-grained artifacts accordingly. There is a very
high degree of interest in this capability within the US federal
government space.
Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
> XML is this great universal data format, great, but
> until it has a cooresponding supporting resource discovery
> mechanism, we lose half the power of using a universal
> language in the first place.
>
> This is hardly a new idea, but IMHO a greatly neglected one.
> It was proposed by Tim Bray and the XML packaging group back
> in 1999, the related resource packaging part anyway, but the
> group was closed due to lack of interest.
>
> http://www.textuality.com/xml/why-pkg.html
> http://www.w3.org/XML/2000/07/xml-packaging-charter
>
> 2-5. I can't even think about any other XML problems until
> this exists. It's so fundamental and obvious it blows my
> mind that it doesn't.
>
> Eric
>
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