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On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Andy Powell wrote: > our continued disablility to be able to advise people about implementing > DC in plain XML (rather than RDF/XML) using either DTDs or XML Schemas is > a big problem for us. Saying to people 'you made the wrong technology > choice' is simply *not* good enough. If we find we have to say that to > the majoritory of implementors then we made the wrong technology choice. > > Some guidance (even in the form of notes) about implementing DC > (qualified and simple) in XML would be very helpful to people I would have > thought. Well, I thought I'd better actually do something, rather than simply moaning about lack of guidelines... so I've written something up at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/dc-xml-guidelines/ I'd be interested in comments, though I'll also send a note about this to dc-architecture in due course, so comments might be better sent there. Note that the examples may well need some work because I don't understand XML schemas and namespaces vey well! :-( Andy -- Distributed Systems and Services UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK [log in to unmask] http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell Voice: +44 1225 323933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ Fax: +44 1225 826838