[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XML standards coherency and so forth
I don't think I'm actually talking about "patterns" here in the OO sense of the word. I simply mean that there are multiple specs that all need to deal with file system hierarchies (DRP, ICE, WebDAV) and all do it in a different way. If we instead wrote a spec for representing a file system hierarchy, and perhaps a delta against that hierarchy, then we could build specs on top of that for versioning, authoring, replication, syndication, and so forth. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...] Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 6:08 PM To: Jeffrey E. Sussna; 'XML-DEV' Subject: Re: XML standards coherency and so forth From: Jeffrey E. Sussna <jes@k...> > XML is a data representation language. Well, XML is really a data *labelling* language (i.e. markup). By taking care of syntax, it exposes the difficult problem: how to go from mere labels to specific representation. > Why not start with a common representation for that content, then let the apps expose > different sets of operations on top of it? I think such an approach would go a long way > towards adding coherency between the various specs under development. I think you are right: apart from RDF in its limited domain, there is no movement in XML/SGML similar to the "pattern movement" in OO programming: a movement trying to extract the fundamental structural patterns in markup which can be used in any application. Architectural forms and namespaces give mechanisms for making it easier to use this approach, but they have not found archetypes. My book (XML & SGML Cookbook) is the only attempt I know to move towards a pattern-based way of marking up documents; Dave Megginson's "Structuring XML Documents" has a tacet awareness of the possibility of patterns too. Rick Jelliffe 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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