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RE: Are people really using Identity constraints specified in

• To: "'bry@i...'" <bry@i...>, "Cox, Bruce" <Bruce.Cox@U...>
• Subject: RE: Are people really using Identity constraints specified in XML schema?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:02:53 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

CAM can be one useful technology.  Again, the assessment of 
the situation/context is the important issue and one asks if 
there are high-level patterns that can be discerned here.

One aside:  reading the CAM page, yet again someone says 
XML is not meant to describe X and then uses XML to create 
an XML application to describe X.   There is a certain 
silliness in pages that do that, but it is the downstream 
ha ha from a community that sold XML as a one size fits 
all solution for interoperation when all it is is a one 
size fits all syntax for portability.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/5930/CAM%20Executive%20Ove
rview%20brochure%2003Mar04.pdf

"However XML by itself is only a markup language, it was
never intended to support exacting business
interchange definitions, rules and industry
vocabularies."

It was intended to support whatever you want to support.

"CAM provides a rich yet simple context
mechanism defined in XML syntax that.."

As we may think...

len


From: bry@i... [mailto:bry@i...]

wow, this sounds like CAM
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=cam

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