> I must admit, though, that there is an aspect of the XML effort
> that bothers me, which is the overlap of some of the efforts. I am
> thinking of DCD/XSchema/XData/RDF for instance. I would like to see
> convergence or at least common strategies, nice and clear with
> pictures and examples. Maybe it's too early for that?
XML-Data is basically dead; DCD and XSchema, together with a few
others, are outside proposals rather than W3C standards efforts -- a
W3C working group will consider all of the proposals and then create a
single standard for low-level XML structural schemas.
RDF schemas are something different -- expect to see a lot of other
application-specific high-level schema languages (for business models,
e-commerce, etc.).
All the best,
David
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