[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XHTML 1.0 returned to HTML WG
David Megginson wrote: > > (or whatever suits). Really -- just give us a Namespace, and we'll > do stuff you barely dare to dream about. That way, they can work on > XHTML itself, modules, and all that at leisure. Well said. But the spec is back for work, so, selah. Geekery... I've been reading Neil Maden's papers on OLAP and multi-dimensional databases for fun. Why isn't more of the list focus integrating XML for the client into the analytical systems so the closed loop from the document dbs to the decision systems is cohesive, fast, and easier to build than hypercubes. Hypercubes are morph based names in a slice and dice API. Separate facts/measure tables (numerical) from dimensions. Isn't a star-based named schema and relating XML schemas in the namespace of a metaName set the same thing? I don't know... fun to consider. Tumblers in the namespace.. The problem of applying schemas is applying them without the idea of dynamically modifying them so they will pivot, drill, mine, what have you. The document structure, if apriori, the schema names, is the range of the querying space. To aggregate, names must aggregate. If that is definitional, authoritative, schemas must be dynamic. Otherwise, they are (neil maden) "time volatile". Isn't a schema the set of names available to query in the space, apriori? To me, that is the main value. The dropdown list. My task tonight is to map two languages, both nodal and field, element and attribute. To do this, I have to abstract out the node names from the namespace of both languages and determine the state of the map (language name pairs or outermost nodes). Do I need a higher level set of names? yeah... the names of the document parts. legally, that is the last level of name binding. the document. The dropdown list. Authoring is the user interface. That namespace is the legal definition. The importance of document systems namespaces is the kind of information traditionally kept in them. The habit of the culture is to put the information for the humans in them, and that is precisely the information one needs to create dimensional data because it describes how the humans think they use it. In legal systems based on records of authority, it is the text references that bear the responsibility that node names carry in namespaces: referent stabilization. A DTD is a hedge on entropy. Even if the rule is volatile, if applied, the value of the referent becomes persistent. Persistence is enough to control the rate of change of the definitions and their affects on the objects they govern. A good analytical engine should let you query that by simple means. Navigate topical schemas or use the morphology of the namespace to store the dimensions. Manipulate it, and let the indexing magic work on the facts. Intersections are facts. OLAP. m-space. Something else. X3D ends up putting in externProtos and Protos so the language is at least, extensible by declarative aggregation. I suggest the markup community adopt similar means. We must have it for the 3D graphics and it is in the abstract set, so it has to be provided. If the idea is useful and generalizable, go for it. len 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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