MHonArc v2.5.0b2 -->
emergency message
[Date Prev]
| [Thread Prev]
| [Thread Next]
| [Date Next]
--
[Date Index]
| [Thread Index]
| [List Home]
Subject: RE: [emergency] FW: [legalxml-intjustice] GJXDM subset schema exa mple and documen tation
Life among the mammals. A piece of code is trivial
to write in comparison to a legal document. We tend
to think in terms of contracts, standards, and specs.
Sit down to write the by-laws for a corporation, define
the entities, and check the number of cyclic graphs that
emerge. Yet where a computer will mostly just spin when
it finds one, a mammal finds a one, names a loophole,
and litigates a feature.
The man who originated most of what is today markup
systems, now XML, is a lawyer. That was a good thing.
He said the first rule of standards writing is,
"Conserve nouns." Turns out to be the best advice
I ever got for this business.
I'm waiting for the W3C to tell us that all of the
new specifications require RDF ontologies.
len
From: Carl Reed [mailto:creed@opengis.org]
Claude -
Everything you state is definitely true in the GIS Industry!
Cheers
Carl
[Date Prev]
| [Thread Prev]
| [Thread Next]
| [Date Next]
--
[Date Index]
| [Thread Index]
| [List Home]