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Re: Re: Rules of Thumb for Creating XML Vocabularies forWorkfl

• From: Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:11:41 +1100

Michael Kay wrote:

> Well, if you read "support the data needs of data producers" as
> "provide the data needed by data providers" then it's clearly
> nonsense, so I assume that's not what Roger meant.

Yes, though I questioned it rather than assume his intention.

> I read it as a precis of:
> 
> "The design of an XML vocabulary must take into account the need of
> data providers to supply the data and the need of data consumers to
> use the data".

That would be a much better way of phrasing it.


Marcus Carr

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