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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of > David E. Cleary > Sent: 22 May 2000 17:13 > To: xml-dev@x... > Subject: RE: Locating schemas (was Re: Irony heaped on irony) > > > > Being able to "install" a schema locally would be extremely useful. > > > > We just need to define how we want the software to "know" where > > to find the schema. The obvious solution to me is a catalog/packaging > > based system. > > I see no reason why installing and retrieving schemas locally needs to be > standardized. This is entirely up to the application, and interoperability > isn't an issue here. I disagree. > For instance, I may want to annotate a standard schema with non-native attributes > to help my application convert an XML instance to my application's native data format. > How my application stores and retrieves this annotated schema has no effect on any > other parts of a distributed system. How *your* application stores and retrieves an annotated schema isn't necessarily the issue. But if you have n different XML-based applications in your system (e.g. XML browser, >1 XML parser, etc) then you could end up having to maintain n different copies of your annotated schema just so you can ensure that each application can retrieve them from wherever their particular config quirks dictates. The issue isn't so much a technical one, nor indeed is interoperability (you're not exchanging data with anyone). The me is issue about usability. Its like caching - the more apps that use the cache, the better the quality of reuse (of retrieved resources) you're going to achieve. And you only have to maintain a single cache. Still, this is all just IMHO. L. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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