What are schemata

Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 16:39:02 -0400


Tim Bray wrote:
>
> I kind of think that the thing people have in mind in this group when
> they say "schema" is "expressions of syntactic constraints which can
> be verified mechanically" or some such.

I would take out the word "syntactic." Databse schemata have much more
than syntactic constraints. Arguably, so do document schemata. Is IDREF
a syntactic constraint? Not according to my intuition.

Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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