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RE: syntax, model

• To: "Jeff Lowery" <Jeff.Lowery@c...>,"Tyler Close" <tyler@w...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: RE: syntax, model
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:33:52 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Thread-index: AcOaUv8slHDSe0gxQoyd0O2lak6TagAAOyDQ
• Thread-topic: syntax, model

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@c...] 
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:19 AM
> To: Dare Obasanjo; Tyler Close; Simon St.Laurent
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  syntax, model
> 
> > This is totally different from what a schema does. This is also the 
> > difference between the relational model and a relational schema.
> 
> So if you took the verbiage of the Data Model, distilled it 
> into formal symbolic description in a suitably expressive 
> language, and then used that for validating purported 
> Xpath/Xquery data models, whould that be a called a schema?

In theory, Yes. In practice, it hasn't happened in the 6 years that XML
has existed and I know of no one who is working on such a beast. 

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