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RE: Q&A Markup Language?

• To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>
• Subject: RE: Q&A Markup Language?
• From: Barwell Jonathan <Jonathan.Barwell@a...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:54:48 -0000
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Return-receipt-to: Barwell Jonathan <Jonathan.Barwell@a...>

Roger,

Your question sparked my interest as it you could think of the Question and Answer as a never ending hierarchy of messages.  I wonder if you could do it the following way?  It seems to work.

Jon

<xs:complexType name="MessageType">
        <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element name="Level" type="xs:int"/>
                <xs:element name="Date" type="xs:date"/>
                <xs:element name="Type">
                        <xs:simpleType>
                                <xs:restriction base="xs:NMTOKEN">
                                        <xs:enumeration value="Question"/>
                                        <xs:enumeration value="Answer"/>
                                        <xs:enumeration value="Comment"/>
                                </xs:restriction>
                        </xs:simpleType>
                </xs:element>
                <xs:element name="Subject" type="xs:string"/>
                <xs:element name="Author" type="xs:string"/>
                <xs:element name="ReplySet" type="MessageType" minOccurs="0" />
        </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...]
Sent: 23 January 2004 13:58
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Q&A Markup Language?

Hi Folks,

[I am posting this question for a colleague]

Has anyone created an XML vocabulary for Question and Answer data?

Without thinking deeply about it, I suppose that a Q&A vocabulary could
be something as simple as:

<session>
     <question>...</question>
     <answer>...</answer>
     <answer>...</answer>
     ...
</session>

Perhaps someone has already thought more deeply about this and has
created a Q&A vocabulary?  If so, please let me know.  /Roger

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