[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: In Search of XML Interoperability: XLink + XML Schema = Interoperabi
David Wang said: > Recall that XML Interoperability was defined as "the ability of an > application to make effective use of an XML document that it receives" > > perhaps: > XLink(modified) + XML Schema =? XML Interoperability. > > There ought to be a way to describe the following notions: > - "Schema_1:SSN is equivalent to Schema_2:Social_Security_#" Roger Costello said: > > Similarly, if an application receives an XML document that contains new, unfamiliar > > elements/attributes then it may be able to still make use of them (the > > unfamiliar elements/attributes) if it can relate them to elements/attributes that it knows about. Isn't solving the interoperability problem what ISO/IEC 11179 (international standard for metadata registries) is all about? ISO/IEC 11179 - Specification and Standardization of Data Elements. draft ISO/IEC 11179-1 - Framework for the Specification and Standardization of Data Elements draft ISO/IEC 11179-2 - Classification for Data Elements draft ISO/IEC 11179-3 - Basic Attributes of Data Elements draft ISO/IEC 11179-4 - Rules and Guidelines for the Formulation of Data Definitions draft ISO/IEC 11179-5 - Naming and Identification Principles for Data Elements draft ISO/IEC 11179-6 - Registration of Data Elements Implementations of ISO/IEC 11179 metadata repositories - Environmental Data Registry (EDR), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - National Health Information Knowledgebase (NHIK), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) - Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Dept. of Transportation's ITS registry standards - Basic Semantic Repository (BSR) for electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. Here is the the ISO/IEC Web site for the group working on the data interchange standard http://bwonotes5.wdc.pnl.gov/SC32/JTC1SC32.nsf and the Metadata Working Group site http://metadata.aihw.gov.au/ Did anyone from XML-land (W3C, Oasis, ebXML, BizTalk) go to the recent Open Forum on Metadata Registries (January 17-20)? ================== Ken North ============================= See you at Java Developer Conference (London, March 13-15, 2000) www.javadevcon.com XML One (Austin, March 29-31, 2000) www.xmlconference.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North =========================================================== ************************************************ This is xml-dev, the list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html ************************************************
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