Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schemas question

2009-07-27 Thread Casey A Mullin
can serve as the 'root node'... or is any element described in the schema avaialable for use as a 'root node', and it'll still validate? Thanks for any tips. Jonathan -- Casey A. Mullin Discovery Metadata Librarian Metadata Development Unit Stanford University Libraries 650-736-0849 cmul

Re: [CODE4LIB] You got it!!!!! Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-10 Thread Casey A Mullin
, and a rigorous mathematical model to describe how it all fits together. This is hard stuff. But it's worth doing right. -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library -- Casey A. Mullin Discovery Metadata Librarian Metadata Development Unit Stanford University Libraries 650

Re: [CODE4LIB] You got it!!!!! Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-10 Thread Casey A Mullin
no relation to each other). To have an extensible data structure we need to have some foundation classes that we can build on, and nothing in FRBR, RDA, or MARC gives us that. kc Casey A Mullin wrote: (Attention: lurker emerging) To me what it comes down to is neither simplicity nor