On Oct 9, 2004, at 6:24 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
<snip/>The golden rules of metadata are:
1) should be declerative (procedurality should be inferred) 2) semantics should be absolute and not positional
the XML model makes it hard to do 1) and extremely hard to do 2). Gump descriptors are perfect examples of a markup that started as 1), didn't even notice 2) and ended up breaking 1) as a result.
Sigh, I guess we have a lot more work to do than I expected :-/
Third golden rule of metadata
3) should minimize semantic redundancy
Great, we have found how gump descriptors break all three rules.
And yet it has worked all these months ;)
I guess it's time to go back to the drawing board.
Just don't throw the baby out with the bath in the quest for the perfect metadata.
Scott
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