Tip: Use Data Dictionary Links for XML and Web Services Schemata
By Uche Ogbuji2005-04-09
Wrap-up
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By adding semantic links, you have taken simple terms used for XML and Web services schemata (service, synopsis, duration), and placed them in a specific context. This makes it much easier to automatically infer their meaning when deployed within systems, and increases the information value of the corresponding XML documents. As an example, using some such semantic link, you can easily determine that the synopsis element has the same meaning as an element named description in another vocabulary. Professional DBAs emphasize the importance of data dictionaries to frame the terms they use in their schemata. XML developers should be no less diligent.
On a more general note, the value of supporting semantic links is also good reason to be sure that materials in schemata, dictionaries, ontologies, and such can be referenced using simple URLs. If you are working in an initiative for semantic transparency, please be sure that one of your goals is easy access through simple linking.
Tutorial Pages:
» Tip: Use Data Dictionary Links for XML and Web Services Schemata
» What exactly is a service anyway?
» Semantic links in WS descriptions
» Wrap-up
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