Re: [xml-dev] Re: Rules of Thumb for Creating XML Vocabularies forWorkfl

[Marcus Carr <mcarr@allette.com.au>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> Well, if you read "support the data needs of data producers" as
> "provide the data needed by data providers" then it's clearly
> nonsense, so I assume that's not what Roger meant.

Yes, though I questioned it rather than assume his intention.

> I read it as a precis of:
> 
> "The design of an XML vocabulary must take into account the need of
> data providers to supply the data and the need of data consumers to
> use the data".

That would be a much better way of phrasing it.


Marcus Carr