Re: Names and schemas

Steven R. Newcomb (srn@techno.com)
Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:14:24 -0500


[Paul Prescod:]

> I believe that through a careful agreement upon and application of
> definitions, we can get rid of most complaints about the namespaces
> proposal and remove all overlap between that proposal and things
> like architectural forms and XSchemas (under development).

If that's true, then that's GREAT!

However, I keep stumbling over a problem in my own mind. (Maybe it's
just too obvious for me to see it.) Using your defined terms, please
explain the usefulness and/or purpose -- in terms of how it furthers
the cause of reliable, vendor-neutral information interchange -- of
declaring that a real or conceptual object exists, in the absence of
any interchangeable definition of what that object is, or what
constraints it must conform to in order to be processable.

-Steve

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