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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
>
> 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.
I guess it worries me when people say that the problem with XML is
that it doesn't do ENOUGH. Most of the problems I see stem from trying
to do too much, too soon, and biting off more before the previous
mouthful was chewed.
That's just disagreeing that this is an *XML* problem, not saying that
it's not a challenge that W3C might want to address or xml-dev argue
about. (State it in haiku and we'll be happy to beat any subject to
death <duck>). It seems more within the domain of the
meta-architecture of the Web that the TAG wrestles with or the classic
challenges of ontology and epistimology that the semantic web people
westle with.
Also, isn't the challenge of querying a distributed database without a
central index at the bleeding edge of computer science? Or would some
way of leveraging Google (or whatever) to find the location of the
meta-information work for what you have in mind?
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