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RE: meta-specs

• From: "Anderson, John" <John@B...>
• To: "'Thomas B. Passin'" <tpassin@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:14:13 +0200

Presumably this is the reason for the <anyAttribute> in XSD.

All sorts of other interesting possibilities arise here, for example:
- This should fit in rather nicely with String Theory (if we abandon XSD datatypes).
- One of the foundations of uncertainty theories is that the act of measuring will change the object being measured. You'd have to be careful with Quantum XML that parsing a document does not change its content or namespace.

- Perhaps this could be the first important step towards a Grand Unified Theory of XML, which will finally tie all these meta-specs together.

- A la Schrodingers Cat, if you put 4 documents into 2 schema "boxes" and parse them, are the documents actually valid until you open the box and have a look?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@h...]
Sent: 31 May 2001 00:30
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re: meta-specs

[Sean McGrath]

>
> You might be interested in Quantum Markup Language then:
>          http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200004/msg00017.html
>
>
Fascinating, but I didn't see any mention of the Goldfarb Uncertainty
Principle in your synopsis - surely it must play a significant role??  I
believe that one of the many manifestations of the GUP is that you can know
exactly either the namespace or the attribute, but not both at the same
time.

Cheers,

Tom P

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