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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Action: please review XML Schema part 2: Datatypes
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> > DC-Architecture,
> >
> > Brief but important message.
> >
> > To get moving again with DC deployment, we need to represent encodings,
> > qualified values etc within DC/RDF. To do this, our best option imho is
> > to try to reflect XML Schema's datatyping machinery into the DC/RDF
> > world.
> >
> > So, please take a good look at the datatypes Candidate Recommendation of
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ with an eye to using some or all of
> > this within an RDF model, alongside the Dublin Core properties.
>
> Dan are you serious... We've printed the whole lot of it. And while
> doing that, we actually made the interesting observation that the XML
> schema spec is actually longer than the Z39.50 spec. To replace Z you
> actually need to add XML-query.
>
> Then the complications measured as pages needed for specifying the job to
> store and query data using XML rather than Z compares favourable for the
> latter. argh ;/
>
> Sigge
>
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