RE: [xml-dev] A Systematic Approach to using SimpleXMLVocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:50 PM
> To: Chiusano Joseph
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] A Systematic Approach to using 
> SimpleXMLVocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
> 
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 12:59 -0500, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> > 
> > Or, it could be the level of confidence of the observation that the 
> > person has that hair color (i.e. observed at close range, observed 
> > through camera, heard-about through third party, etc.), or 
> some other 
> > meaning. Plus, even with the suggested approach, if the validity 
> > "evaluation levels" changed at some point (perhaps from 
> "after 90 days"
> > to "after 120 days"), the XML documents would need to be updated.
> > 
> > It's probably best to decouple the representation from its 
> evaluation,
> 
> Which I guess is the job of the application, as Bill suggests?
> Interpretation of the data?
> I've told you 'facts', dates, now you go work out if its any 
> good to you?
> I guess the boundaries then become a part of the 'business 
> rules' as Mike keeps calling them, the contract between 
> sender and recipient.
> 

Precisely.

Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
 
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