Neat, Jeni.
I observe that every time the web architectural design hits
a snag by creating sharable objects that constrict the
space of objects that can be shared, the same solution
is adopted: to create a document type that declares the
means of declaring the objects to be shared.
There is a pattern here worthy of study if an only if
it breaks through the glass ceiling of attempting to
equate the names of things with the things we share.
len
From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:]
A little while ago, Rick Jelliffe issued the challenge:
> Personally, I think it is high time for people who don't like the
> W3C datatypes to band together to make a concrete alternative.
I thought I'd spend a little time on this, so I've put together a
"datatype library language". The idea is that applications such as
RELAX NG validators or XPath 2.0 processors could read in a document
in this language and use it to construct a datatype library or set of
in-scope type definitions.
Note that this isn't a proposed datatype library -- it's not a
replacement for the XML Schema datatypes -- rather, it's a language
that enables users to create declarative definitions of the datatype
libraries that they need.
