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Re: Re: Flexible Schemas (was RE: The task to be sol


nico van der vlist
Why not use RDF instead ?

Regards,
Nicolas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: Re:  Re: Flexible Schemas (was RE:  The task to
be solved by RDDL)


> Nicolas Lehuen wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Well, I said I wouldn't reply to each message, but... One more time : WE
> > KNOW that a RDDL document only describes a namespace.
>
>
> This is the original goal of RDDL, but I see at least two other levels
> where RDDL like xlinks could be used.
>
> Using RDDL to describe namespaces creates (0, n) <--> (0, n) links
> between instance documents and RDDL documents.
>
> RDDL like documents could also be attached to instance documents to
> describe their processing model. We would then add to the notion of
> namespace a notion of "processing space" which could be described in a
> RDDL like fashion.
>
> The links between instance documents and processing space definitions
> would probably be (0,1) <--> (0,n).
>
> Going still more specific, any web page could be a RDDL like document
> describing its own structure and giving, for instance, the list of
> source XML documents and XSLT transformations used to compose it, and a
> list of tools which might be used to process its content.
>
> The XHTML document would then be its own description and the link be
> (0,1) <--> (1,1).
>
> Beside its original goal, RDDL appears then to be a good example of
> XLinks embedded if XHTML documents to add "machine processable"
information.
>
> My 0,02 Euros,
>
> Eric
>
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