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I agree with both Simon and Michael. Sometimes you have a simple spec that could be subsumed by a more expansive spec but is not. For, example GPX for GPS interchanges vs GML as the more expansive spec. http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language Having two specs should be avoided if possible, at another level it allows the GPS community to run with something simple - and simple sells and spreads like wildfire. It also can burn you for later enhancements. You have to decide how wide ranging and inclusive you want to be. Is it truly a "standard". Proper design should go from requirements to some proposals - which can be tortured complex crap - to a final simplification. Sometimes the final simplication stage never happens. Simplication can be accomplished with conformance levels or extensible frameworks or "architectures" being a way to avoid complexity and having to specify every last item for everyone - eg: HL7, GML, DITA. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 6:14 PM To: Michael Kay Cc: 'Sharma, Dhruv'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org Subject: Re: menuml -restaurant menu xml prototype app Michael Kay wrote: > I'm afraid this looks more like a quick student exercise than a > professional schema design informed by methodical data analysis. Part of what I've always liked about XML is that you don't have to be a professional schema designer to walk up to it and get things done. And given a lot of the professional designs I've seen, that may be the key to why it actually took off. -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/ _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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