Geoff Deering wrote:

>> <gem>
>> <commonName>ametrine</commonName>
>> <composition>silicon dioxide</composition>
>> <MOH>7</MOH>
>> </gem>
>>
>> What does the above granular data have to do with ODF? :-)
> 
> And what does it have to do with DocBook as you suggested;

uh, *nothing* -- DocBook was just an *example* of a granular schema
for capturing information about a *specific* knowledge domain --
publications. DocBook doesn't apply to gems, John Deere tractors, or
quite a few other real-world knowledge domains for which data can
be kept in a CMS. :-)

> I agree with you, that if you want to express your granular content with
> this definition, you have to write your own schema.  In certain
> situations this could be the option to adopt, but in many large
> organisations, where there are many departments, many complex documents
> for both intranet and internet publication, ODF and similar would
> provide ...

Well, let's agree to disagree -- you're document-focused, and I'm
data-focused. I don't consider "documents" as input to a CMS, nor
something stored in a CMS -- data stored in the CMS can be *output*
as a document of some sort. But user-created documents, in my own
experience, *never* contain any content semantics, nor do I see a
way for that to happen.

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