RE: SMEs : was RE: Party XML Schema Defintions

[Joaquin Miller <miller@joaquin.net>]

At 12:09 PM 2/8/2001 -0800, Hayes, Brian wrote:
> It is general considered to be good
> architecture to seperate user interface issues from data issues: Your
> user friendly user interface sould not be displaying XML tag and
> attribute names.

Absolutely!  I could not agree more.

It's why i wrote: "Everyone can use software to display
the data with field names they can read and to provide explanations for
what those field names mean."

I side with those who suggest using identifiers.  I feel it is a
much better way than hanging our hat on natural language tags, whether
English or so-called "Foreign."  I don't want to repeat
here all the traffic about the problems with dependence on exclusive use
of natural language tags.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joaquin Miller
> [mailto:miller@joaquin.net]
> STEPHENIE COOPER wrote:
>
> ebXML's goal should be to help make that happen.
>
> Yes.  Let's go for the whole planet.  Not just our company's
> customers or
> partners.  And let's go for the people who speak Foreign, too. 
> Everyone can
> use software to display the data with field names they can read and
> to
> provide explanations for what those field names mean.  There has
> been a lot
> of recent eMail traffic about how to define ebXML in order to make that
> easy
> for everyone.  Let's do it.

Cordially,

Joaquin

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