RE: ebXML Representation of Metadata

[Cory Casanave <cory-c@dataaccess.com>]

What you MAY be referring to is a bug in the  first standard which did not
specify ordering of elements, this has been addressed in the current
standard.  Other than not, I know of no such problem.
Cory

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Duane Nickull [SMTP:duane@xmlglobal.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 23, 2000 5:57 PM
> To:	Cory Casanave; Miller, Robert (GXS);
> ebxml-core@lists.oasis-open.org; ebXML-Architecture List
> Cc:	Iyengar, Sridhar
> Subject:	RE: ebXML Representtion of Metadata
> 
> 
> <SNIP>I note that you do not list XMI in your list of considerations, have
> you
> looked at this?  XMI is the adopted OMG standard for representation of
> metadata in XML.  There has already been some discussion of using XMI
> within
> EbXml.  I am not as familiar with RDF and will take a look at it.
> </SNIP>
> 
> Although I am not an XMI expert,  the one persistant shortcoming that I
> keep
> hearing with XMI is that it cannot provide a "consistent" way to
> interchange
> metadata.  Does anyone have an answer for this comment?
> 
> Duane Nickull