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What are schemata

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: 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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