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This depends, I think, on what the markup is to be used for, eg, a serialization of a database vs a primary vocabulary for a client language. I believe that skilled markup design is most needed in the latter case because that is one where the author is more likely to see the markup. Even then, it varies by case given the relative importance of validity and scope to the final effect. For example, structural validity is less important to HTML than to X3D. When doing server-side database design, my experience is that when the skilled markup designer is brought in, he or she may see that the legacy data base names and structures have flaws and point them out while attempting to make the markup design cleaner. This complicates the job of the programmer responsible for serialization because it is a good bet that the database will not be cleaned up. Fairly quickly, the markup design is abandoned or someone says, "just XSLT". One should have both skills where possible. Compromise is essential. Schema design is even more complicated than that in some organizations for similar reasons. That may be one reason it is considered just another form of documentation. It would be interesting to see what the real adoption rate of working schemas is, that is, as something more than an appendix in a design document or the unlooked at part of a specification when not a primary client vocabulary. len From: Michael Brennan [mailto:mpbrennan@e...] So teams had relatively specialized roles, and we balanced the teams with people with complimentary skills (ideally). I think markup design fits in with this. Organizations need to understand the need for a defined role for the markup designer and treat it with the same seriousness as most professional organizations have come to treat data modeling. But I think the focus of certain influential tools vendors of pushing tools that simply treat XML as a serialization format for objects is redirecting focus to some extent and delaying this realization.
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