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At 02:17 PM 5/27/98 UT, Simon St.Laurent wrote: [lots of good stuff] >Questions: >3 - Paul Prescod suggested removing it. I like it because it sets a limited >task, the 'normalized' DTDs. I think 'capable of' leaves open the possibility >that SDDs can do more than just this. I must have missed Paul's argument for removing this point. Goal #3 seems straightforward enough to me, and the "capable of" (as you say) gives some wiggle room. >5 - Two private respondents have complained that 'easy' is too vague (as in >'easy to create, read, and modify'). To me this means SDD's should be >editable by a human with a reasonable knowledge of XML structures, but I can >see where this may bother people. I like the vagueness, I suppose. Anyone >have a clearer idea? Maybe add the phrase "except for the design goals" to #10? :) >9 - Should we add some kind of bounds to keep SDDs from redefining document >instance syntax? Yes. I think this is inherent in some of the other goals but it wouldn't hurt to make it explicit. >12 - Alain Deseine proposed a metadata mechanism. I hope we have the kinds of >metadata he needs in this note. I don't want to march on metadata a la RDF >with this module. Yes. John E. Simpson | It's no disgrace t'be poor, simpson@p... | but it might as well be. | -- "Kin" Hubbard xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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