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RE: Enlightenment via avoiding the T-word

• From: "Fuchs, Matthew" <matthew.fuchs@c...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:12:52 -0700

And the model theorist says it's really good if the label is unique, because
I want to give the labels meanings in the domains (models) I am interested
in, and it's so much easier if I know what I'm hanging a meaning on.

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 7:05 AM
> To: Ronald Bourret; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: Enlightenment via avoiding the T-word
> 
> 
> Using a label as a bracket seems to be overkill.  LISP.
> Using a URN as a bracket seems to be overkill.  XML.
> 
> Insisting the label has meaning says the 
> label names a type (and the relational theorists 
> guffaw at the markup theorists).
> 
> Using the word proudly because without it, 
> this thread just becomes obscure.
> 
> Len 
> http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
> 
> Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
> Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:22 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re: Enlightenment via avoiding the T-word
> 
> 
> Tim Bray wrote:
> > Since
> > nobody is arguing that it's a bad idea to have context-sensitive
> > content models,
> 
> Actually, I have, at least half-heartedly. Part of my objection is the
> expense of figuring out what content model applies, but most of it is
> that I would like a label to tell me what something *is*. (This is
> different from what something *applies to*, which usually is
> context-sensitive.) On the other hand, the cases put forward 
> both by the
> OO community (Matthew, me) and the well-formed community 
> (Evan) are good
> use cases.
> 
> My gut reaction to this sort of fence sitting is to not support it and
> add it later if there is demand. (Along these same lines, the best
> hiring advice I ever heard was that if you only think a 
> candidate can do
> the job but are not really sure, don't hire them -- you'll almost
> invariably regret it.)
> 
> -- Ron
> 
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