Rob Seaman wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>> ..."fixing" the standard to work round broken toolsets is a dumb
>> idea. Either fix the toolsets or use different tools.
>
> I might point out that XML Schema (capital-S) is itself a specific
> technology with its own strengths and limitations. IVOA standards
> (and their underlying Platonic schemata) should be developed with
> full knowledge of the "features" of Schema – but we should be
> careful to distinguish between requirements placed on our standards
> by the innate nature of the astronomical domain and those imposed
> by the limits of current technology.
Oh Heavens! Yes! The standard is NOT the schema, the standard is the document which describes it...
Al. Received on 2006-09-22Z22:47:04