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David Megginson wrote: > > That's not what I mean -- creating a data model is tractable, but a > data model is of questionable value if it's not based on a fairly > accurate business model, use cases, etc. I do not see why a data model has any higher requirement for business models, use cases and so forth than a language like HTML, XLink or XML namespaces. In fact, I would argue that those languages always have an implicit data model reflecting implicit use cases and business models. We can make the data model explicit without making the use models explicit. Isn't that essentially what the information set is doing? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco [Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"] Annie: "It's so clean down here." Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows." 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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