[dsdl-comment] Re: Monolithic schemas are bad, right?

2008/5/17 Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>:

> In James Clark's NRL tutorial[1] he writes about creating a schema for
> XHTML that imports SVG:

> Later he refers to this as the "xhtml+svg.rng" schema.
>
> I interpret James' paragraph as, "Rather than taking the existing
> schemas and assembling them, create a monolithic schema."
>
> This seems counter to the NVDL philosophy of "taking what schemas exist
> and assemble them."

I think you're putting words into his mouth Roger? I don't read
that as expressing a preference?

Like many standards, we aren't told how to use them, just that
they are there to be used?

>
> Most likely I am misunderstanding what James is saying.
>
> Would someone clarify this please?

<grin/> I wouldn't dare!

regards

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