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  • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:46:32 -0400

On 4/9/13 7:33 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>   Publishing a schema (for a reasonable definition of "schema" that
> generally doesn't involve such silly things as int vs long type
> assertions) in association with a marked-up text is crucial to extending
> its longevity of interpretation.  We're already losing a tremendous
> number of digital materials from the early days of digital media because
> the publishers were not conscious of this, and as the original engineers
> are lost to circumstances of the hereafter.

I really like the image this gives me of schemas as headstones on 
graves, identifying what lies beneath...

Though it also reminds me of a newspaper digitizing project I need to 
get moving soon.

Thanks,
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/


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