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Re: Micro XSD for Micro XML?

• From: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
• To: xml-Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:01:59 -0500

> PS: of course, we must agree that a a MicroXSD describes the mapping
> between the semantic of the data and its XML representation, and not
> just a bunch of technical unclear-to-humans russian-doll rules.

Sorry, don't agree about the semantics part. Schema is about structure, not semantics. 
Conflating the two is (part of) what makes XSD such a disaster. 

This thread is about keeping it simple.

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