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Hi,
Speaking just as me, and not wearing any hats at
all...
If we
do this right, then many small enterprises will be exchanging info
electronically for
the
first time. Just as new users did with traditional EDI, I suspect the
majority will start
with
just displaying the data on their computers. In this case, it would be
good if all
the
information was on one screen.
So, I
vote for short but meaningful tags.
Mary
Kay
Folks
It has
been said
1. Human readability by domain experts as
well as software specialist,
is a requirement for XML
documents.
Yes true, but if we were to adopt a 'code' as a tag
then it would still be
human readable i.e it is ASCII but the
meaning would be obscured to the
casual/uneducated reader. It is not
beyond the wit of comptuing to look up
the 'code' and make it
friendly to the casual reader. Also, given the
human reader
could have some language other than English as his/her
mother
tongue, then the look up could be keyed on Language Code
+ tag code. Is this
even better than having a long English
tag?
Even with 'long' tag names, which allow readability in
English, there
still remains a problem, in that the tag does not
convey the complete
meaning - otherwise we would not need any
semantics at all.
Again we must ask a similar question to the one
which I posed before.
How much of the semantics should be in the
tag and how much in the
actual semantic description of the
element.
There is a temptation to write an 'essay' in the
tag.
Anybody got thoughts on this one ?
Cheers, Phil
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