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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Some questions
 Hi Jeff, Jeff said: Well, you need both. You need the shared concept of "author" and the shared representation of an instance of that concept. XML specs of various kinds are trying to define shared representations at various semantic layers. Both vertical and horizontal vocabulary efforts (Dublin Core, BizTalk, etc.) are required to complete the equation. Jeff P.S. Please don't bash me for mentioning BizTalk. It was an arbitrary example. Didier reply: I won't bash you but will precise that, the biztalk framework is more an envelope used to transport you document. In that sense, your document is transformed into a biztalk document's fragment. If we look closely enough, a biztalk framework is a collection of meta data about an XML document. Meta data like: a) from whom/what is this document coming from? b) to whom/what is this document sent to? c) what is the purpose of this document? d) To which process is this document part of? So, a biztalk document is a set of meta data properties and your off course includes your document now transformed into a biztalk document's fragment. A biztalk document has about the same structure as an HTML document. <biztalk> <route> header part or meta data part </route> <body> body part - this is where you insert your document </body> </biztalk> This is roughly equivalent to an HTML document structure: <html> <headers> ... your headers here including meta data </headers> <body> ...the HTML document body </body> </html> Something interesting to note here, the meta data are mainly "routing" meta data as you would find in workflow engines. Is a biztalk server a workflow engine? Does Microsoft now want to enter in the workflow business? I let you make your own conclusions. PS: my outlook spell checker still wants to replace the "biztalk" word by the "bestial" word :-))) Cheers Didier PH Martin ---------------------------------------------- Email: martind@n... Conferences: Web Boston (http://www.mfweb.com) Markup 99 (http://www.gca.com) Book to come soon: XML Pro published by Wrox Press Products http://www.netfolder.com 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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