- From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
- To: xml-dev@l...
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:55:05 -0500
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[Len Bullard]
Contracts have to care.
If they don’t
then the humans won’t.
This get to the nub of it. I think of it this way :
1 - If a data corpus, really and truly is known to fit a schema,
then schemas can be very useful, as long as authors/editors don's
subvert it.
2 - Authors are very likely to subvert the intent of the schema.
Taking shortcuts is human nature
3 - The question of whether or not a corpus of data really and truly
is known to fit a schema is a profound one. Semantic markup always
has a bias, a point of view, perspective that may is not as shared
as the schema creators typically think. After all, bias is what the
other guy has.
4 - Everybody interested in XML schemas should read Sausserre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
"Shared understanding" is really really tricky because the concept
of a shared language is really, really tricky. Humans communicate
probabilistically for the most part, but we tend not to be conscious
of that.
Schemas ain't probabilistic.
Sean
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