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On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 11:28 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > On 4/8/13 11:11 AM, Fraser Goffin forwarded: > > Simon is being argumentative and provocative in order to elicit > > responses, and, whilst there's a grain of truth in what he says, it's > > far from the whole story. :-) > > Liam, you know me. If I wanted to be provocative, I'd be saying > something like "If this [RDF-tastic pile] is an improvement to XML, then > I am a dandelion." I do indeed know you (and note that Frank forwarded an off-list message; I don't think it's productive to characterize arguments that way in public because they stop working). But you are still taking a strong rhetorical position :-) Places where we agree re. schemas: * they can be misapplied * they can be used as a crutch to avoid thinking about situations (more than my job's worth to let you park there sir) * they can stifle design But these things are true of any set of guidelines, rules, best practices, laws, legislation... > At least I'm getting a gentler reaction than Walter Perry used to get, > though it may just be that I'm offering a milder line. I always felt his arguments were not about schemas per se but about specific vocabularies, and remember well that Michael Sperberg-McQueen, after Walter had said the markup language doesn't matter because the data itself is sufficient, refuted him in German. Or something sufficiently German-sounding to fool me. He said in private conversation afterwards the the primary documents with which he was dealing contained only a few items - I think price, quantity, stock ticker symbol, buyer, seller, date/time. In almost all cases the lexical forms would be sufficiently distinctive that there would be no confusion, especially with ticker symbol/price redundancy. But there are other use cases for which that's not the case, of course. > > (For those who have forgotten Walter's talks or arrived after he had > moved on, http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/perry.html is a good place > to start. For those who want deeper background on what is driving me to > write these things now, see <http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199898073/> or > <http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195032233/>.) > We also agree that Christopher Alexander is worth reading. I should very much like to get to this book but it won't be until after the Restoration of the House. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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