RE: ebXML Representtion of Metadata

[David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

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I think it important to distinguish between the complexity of the DTD and
the complexity of the streams that conform to the DTD.
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Scott,

Also notice that the DTD is generated from the XMI by slamming 
everything into ATTLIST declarations.

This is NOT good for consistent information storage and retrieval
optimization in a database context.   Sure the schemas will work,
but performance will go into the toilet as any information retrieval
will be forced to do a sequential search against the entire 
information space....

So - it works to tranfer the model - but you cannot base the interchange
transactions themselves off the model instance.

Back to that glassblowing analogy - more research needed on optimizing
both the model and the interchange formats.   An interesting rule-based
generation application - if you need someone to write some Prolog, 
I volunteer!

DW.