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Re: xml taxonomy

• To: Murali Mani <mani@C...>
• Subject: Re: xml taxonomy
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:52:42 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0308280621310.24569-100000@p...> (MuraliMani's message of "Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:28:49 -0700 (PDT)")
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Murali Mani <mani@C...> writes:


> But I do not understand the reasons for the "er" translation. It seems
> like you have entity types like "complexTypeDefinition", "attributeUse",
> "attributeDeclaration" and so on, and you are trying to understand how an
> author has written a schema better, rather than the actual information the
> schema contains..

Note I'm just using the schema domain as I happen to have examples of
everything I need to hand, i.e. existing data model/ontology and vernacular
XML representation.

So none of this has to do with understanding W3C XML Schema at all,
rather the idea of a 'vernacular'--'generic' dimension along which to
classify XML document types.

The er: fragment I gave is an example of generic XML encoding of a
data model.  In the particular model at hand, "complexTypeDefinition",
"attributeUse" and "attributeDeclaration" were the relevant entity
types, but the whole point of the generic style is that _any_
data-model vocabulary can be used with that fixed tagset.

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