[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Modularity (was: Linkbases,Topic Maps,and RDF Knowledge Bases -- hel
Steve Amen, particularly to "Upgrading everything at once is basically impossible" and everything that follows. Regards Chris Angus > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven R. Newcomb [mailto:srn@c...] > Sent: 08 April 2001 03:17 > To: jenglish@f... > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Modularity (was: Linkbases, Topic Maps,and RDF Knowledge Bases > -- help me understand, please) > > > [Joe English:] > > For example, in XLink <URL: > > http://www.foo.com/doc.xml#bar > and <URL: > > http://www.foo.com/doc.xml#xpointer(id('bar')) > > mean the same thing, but in RDF they're different. > > Egad. > > I really wish that, on the Web and everywhere else, > addressing (e.g., URIs) were entirely functionally > distinct from the many applications of addressing > (e.g. XLink and RDF). > > We lay painful and expensive traps for ourselves > whenever we fail to take advantage of natural modular > distinctions, like the distinction between addressing, > on the one hand, and everything that uses addressing, > on the other. > > Modularity liberates evolution. Modules can be > upgraded as needed, and, at any one time, there can be > more than one module that performs essentially the same > function. Upgrading everything at once is basically > impossible, so the failure to modularize leads to long > periods of wasteful stagnation punctuated by > unbelievably expensive and awkward revolutions, each of > which is accompanied by all kinds of collateral damage, > waste, uncertainty and fear. Ugh. It's high time for > us to stop hurting ourselves this way. > > If you don't see the rapid and smooth evolution of > efficient information management as a good and > necessary thing, dear reader, please ask yourself > whether you're really eager to delay progress in, say, > medicine, for example, while you yourself are growing > older. > > -Steve > > -- > Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant > srn@c... > > voice: +1 972 359 8160 > fax: +1 972 359 0270 > > 405 Flagler Court > Allen, Texas 75013-2821 USA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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