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RE: Subtyping in XML

• To: 'John Cowan' <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: Subtyping in XML
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:39:36 -0500
• Cc: aray@n..., xml-dev@l...

Still, the Chinese took pride in the system 
and hung on to it.  The Egyptians didn't.  
Somewhere in there is a hidden coupler. I'm 
curious about cultural events that cause 
forgetfulness.  Some cultures can hang onto 
tools and grudges for amazingly long times; 
whereas others just adapt and let what is 
bygone be gone.

Hoorah for RELAX NG.  What is the cost of that, 
implementing and marketing the datatype plug?

len

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> 
> Ahh yes; the hostile takeover scenario.  Understood.

I don't think so, actually.  Ancient conquerers typically didn't want to
impose their language and culture on the conquered: it just paid for
the conquered to learn.  Writing Coptic in Greek letters didn't make it
one bit more intelligible to Greeks, but for Egyptians who weren't scribes
it was a powerful technology.

> I was hoping for pluggable profiles myself.

Exactly what RELAX NG provides.

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