[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)

• From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:16:11

At 13:21 22/06/98 -0500, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
[...]
>
>The ultimate problem of course is that Humpty Dumpty rules in XML land: any
>element can mean exactly what you want it to mean, regardless of what the
>original author intended it to mean.  That is the beauty of generalized
>markup and the curse of generalized markup.

Eliot is, of course, formally correct.

>
>Embrace the chaos.

I attach the following semantics to this fuzzy statement. Eliot is urging
us to find workable solutions, using XML-DEV as a means for arriving at
rough consensus within at least a part of our community. He is also
suggesting that this will be a joyous task. [1]

	P.

[1] Of course you have to attach semantics to what *I* have just written...
Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic
net connection
VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary
http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg

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...)

• References:
  • Re: words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)
    • From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@i...>

• Prev by Date: Re: words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)
• Next by Date: Re: XSchema Spec Section 2.2, Draft 1
• Previous by thread: Re: words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)
• Next by thread: RE: words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread