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  • 1.  RE: [emergency] FW: [legalxml-intjustice] GJXDM subset schema exa mple and documen tation

    Posted 03-29-2004 20:06
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    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
    


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