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 On 4/23/2018 12:31 AM, Rick Jelliffe wrote: Two quickies.This reminds me of an angry comment from someone after a Walter Perry talk long ago. "Doesn't he know that today's semantics are tomorrow's syntax?" It can work like that, but I don't think it has for a while. Perhaps we're just in a lull. I read schemas as an effort to make that kind of shift, but I don't see that shift happening. Or, for now, profitable. Too many people on too many projects have claimed that sharing (and standardizing) the meaning of things is the point of schemas. It seems to work better for gathering funding.Does a schema share semantics or just advertise them? While people are certainly willing to pay for advertising, I don't think that is what they often claim to be doing here. Worse, we seem to live in a world in which we can give people advertisements and they mistake them for stern reality. Schemas can absolutely be useful, but our tendency to make them into prisons also makes them dangerous. (And yes, people say that XML syntax is similarly imprisoning. I tend to disagree about that part, but don't worry much about convincing them any more.) Thanks, Simon 
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