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Re: [Shannon: information ~ uncertainty] Ramificationsto XML d

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: [Shannon: information ~ uncertainty] Ramificationsto XML data exchange?
• From: Micah Dubinko <micah@d...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:57:32 -0700
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Roger L. Costello wrote:

>2. A schema is used to restrict the allowable forms that an instance
>document may take.  So doesn't a schema reduce information?
>  
>
I think you could rephrase that question as:

How much information is carried in the knowledge that a piece of XML is 
valid against a particular schema?

.micah

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