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RE: Partyin' like it's 1999

• To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>, "Ronald Bourret" <rpbourret@r...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:01:55 -0400
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• Thread-topic: Partyin' like it's 1999

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@i...] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:39 AM
> To: 'Ronald Bourret'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Partyin' like it's 1999
> 
> When namespaces first came to be, the examples were for 
> things like dropping SVG into the middle of an HTML page, 
> including MathML into X3D, etc.  Do many browsers really 
> enable namespace integration like that?  Well, sure, that's 
> what IE does by combining a CSS declaration for the behavior 
> with the namespace. 
> .Net enables their ASP web browser controls, VML etc. 
> like that, in the instance.   Yet I don't find schemas 
> for these perhaps because the schema would document the 
> object framework.  
> 
> But yes, in terms of actually sharing data types across 
> communities of interest, the communities aren't that 
> interested.   

Would you say that there are multiple communities within the US federal
government that *are* very interested?

Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World

> From the perspective of the legendary 
> lone schema hacker, it's easier to include these the old 
> fashioned way:  entities.  Where I think this might be 
> insufficient is testing contract based requirements that 
> point to an ROA specifying particular schemas, ie, the sort 
> of thing we get in government contract work.
> 
> len
> 
> 
> From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...]
> 
> Yes. I've seen it in at least one other organization as well. 
> My point is that it hasn't crossed schema boundaries and 
> become universal in the way people thought it might. (There 
> might very well be a good reason for this. For example, given 
> the potential complexity of addresses, somebody designing for 
> a local market might be making a very good design decision to 
> ignore all that complexity and simply encode the address 
> schema that fits their locale.)
> 
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