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Re: Internal subset equivalent in new schema proposals?

  • From: "Michael Kay" <M.H.Kay@e...>
  • To: <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 19:24:13 -0000

internal proposals
>I wrote:
>> A document is information organised for human communication; data is
>> information organised for machine processing.
>
While Paul Prescod asserts:
>SGML and XML are explicitly about organizing information for machine
>processing. So according to your definition, SGML is about data, not
>documents.

Well, I know that SGML folks have always seen SGML as the solution to
everything, but I don't think they've erased the evidence of where it came
from, which was device-independent typographical markup.

If you were to design something for processing data (not just rendering it),
you'd have support for the kind of data models recognised in the database
world; you'd have integrity constraints (including data types and primary
keys); you'd have declarative query languages and report writers rather than
navigational APIs and style sheets; you'd have relationships rather than
hyperlinks; and (to be trivial about it) you'd have examples in the domain
of customers and orders, not books and poems.

It so happens that XML is better for doing application-to-application data
interchange than things (like ASN.1) that were supposedly designed for the
job, so I don't begrudge it. But XML (including its friends and relations)
is full of things that wouldn't be there if that were its original primary
purpose, and I really don't see how one can claim otherwise.

Mike Kay


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