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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 > > -- > Rendez-vous a Paris pour les Electronic Business Days 2002. > http://www.edifrance.org/ebd/index.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com > http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > >
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