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 At 6:41 AM -0700 6/6/04, Robert Koberg wrote: >Baloney. You can simply modify the schema. That way all members of >the team use the same convention, from authors to template creators >to developers. Again another unexamined assumption that's critical to the issue at hand. You and I (and a thousand other developers) are *not* on the same team. Yet we need to communicate anyway. Rigid fixed schemas may well work for a group of ten developers, especially if they're all on the same team in the same organization, doing essentially the same thing with the data. But rigid fixed schemas fail when we're talking about thousands or tens of thousands or even millions of disconnected developers who do not have prior agreements, who do not know each other, and who are doing very different things with the same data. This is the world of the Internet. This is the world I work in. This is the world more and more developers are working in more and more of the time, and the old practices that worked in small, closed systems behind the firewall are failing. It's time to learn how to design systems that are flexible and loosely coupled enough to work in this new environment. XML is a critical component in making this work. Maybe RDF is too, though I'm still not convinced (to bring this thread back on topic.) Schemas really aren't. At best schemas are a useful diagnostic tool for deciding what kind of document you've got so you can dispatch it to the appropriate local process. At worst, however, schemas encourage a mindset and assumptions that are actively harmful when trying to produce scalable, robust, interoperable systems. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA 
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