RE: XSchema Question 1: RDF

Ron Bourret (rbourret@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:16:23 +0200


Tim Bray wrote:

> In fact *every* attempt so far
> (the old DSD stuff, XML-Data, etc) to express content models in XML has
> come up verbose and unreadable compared to good ol' 8879 DTD notation.
> I think there's a better way, and want to see what xml-dev can come up
> with. -Tim

Regardless of whether XSchema rivals DTD notation for brevity and clarity, we
still need it. The compelling reason for XSchema is not besting the readability
of DTD notation -- a visual schema editor is far clearer than both -- but making
schema information available through XML tools (which are numerous) rather than
DTD tools (which are not).

For this reason, I would vote against directly using RDF in XSchema, as it means
we will have designed something we can't use.

-- Ron Bourret