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z2006-05-07- Mcgrath Hiding Custom Xml In Microformat
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Oct 14, 2008 3:26 am |
Sean Mc Grath on hiding custom XML within Micro Format structures. XML, RDF, [UML] and so on are not formats so much as meta-formats. Consequently, built-in knowledge of any of these does not amount to zero complexity. XML is not a file format. It is a file format for file formats. This distinction is all important when calculating complexity... Perhaps we can hide custom XML languages inside these standard XML languages, using them as general-purpose semantic containers. We could arrange that XHTML files or [ODT] files look and feel like ordinary files to XHTML-aware or [ODT]-aware tools and yet, inside these files we can hide the semantic information we would normally use a custom XML schema for.
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