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Jeff Rafter scripsit: > Can anyone comment on the relationship between RDDL and NRL? I am trying to > figure out if they can be used in conjunction, are competing, or orthogonal. > I have read both specs but they don't cross-reference one another. It seems > that they occupy roughly the same space ultimately, or at the very least > that there is some overlap. Not really. RDDL documents a namespace. NRL specifies how to subdivide a compound document into pieces and how to validate the pieces. Both can be seen as "map namespace name to schema", but RDDL is much more general, whereas NRL is specific to validation but provides things like wildcard namespace names and multi-namespace schemas. -- "Do I contradict myself? John Cowan Very well then, I contradict myself. cowan@c... I am large, I contain multitudes. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass http://www.reutershealth.com
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