Re: XSD: Proposed Goals, Rev. 3

Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Thu, 28 May 1998 17:27:00 +0100 (BST)


> 9. XSD shall include mechanisms for extending the information included in
> SDDs to support metadata.

> 11. The XSD specification will comply with and be consistent with W3C
> recommendations regarding XML.

> Modifications:
>
> 9 - added "to support metadata". Paul's description of possibly dangerous
> extensions is convincing. I'm not sure "to support metadata" is enough, but
> I'm not sure how better to phrase it. I think prescribing extension limits is
> something that will have to be done in the body of the document.

If [9] is to mention metadata, it might be worth ammending [11] to
explicitly say "regarding XML and the RDF data model." (or "RDF metadata"
or similar phrase).

Dan