From: Robert Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 11:17:17 MDT
Why not go beyond this to a Meta DOM (document object model)?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Clemmensen" <dgc@cox.rr.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Semantic Web: Beyond Metadata
> Robert Coyote wrote:
>
> > Sounds like we need some kind of Meta DTD
>
>
> XML 1.0 was a great idea, but it had one failing:
> you specify an XML document type using a different
> language called DTD. SO, DTD is sort of the meta XML
> for release 1.0
>
> A new standard now corrects this problem: This standard
> uses schemas instead of DTDs. A schema is a well-formed
> XML document that describes an XML document type. The
> schema for a schema is well-formed XML .documet, and
> is thus a meta-schema. Therefore, you could in theory
> define a meta-meta-schema.
>
> You cannot really understand recursion until you understand
> recursion :-)
>
>
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