Re: [xml-dev] NVDL: A Disruptive Technology

• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@...>
• To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@...>
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:43 -0400

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Hold the phone here ... NVDL is not just for the situation where one 
> finds the semantics available in one schema language preferable over 
> that of the other and they feel obliged to use both.
>
> Rather than writing an über-schema covering all of the possibilities 
> found in a single instance one can use NVDL to choreograph the 
> dispatching of portions of one's document to different schemas using 
> the same schema language for each vocabulary.
>
> I wouldn't want NVDL judged only on its merits of allowing multiple 
> different languages to be used at the same time.  Then it becomes a 
> "mine is better than yours" argument on the languages ignoring what I 
> think is the prime motivation for NVDL:  dispatching ... hence the name!

Yes, this is very helpful.

Jonathan