[topicmapmail] Announcement of XML Schema for ISO 13250 Topic Maps

David RR Webber Gnosis_@compuserve.com
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:00:13 -0500


Message text written by Patrick Durusau
>I am just not certain that I would choose ISO
13250 over XTM simply because I had a difficult interface for users. The
more
obvious solution, to me at any rate, would be to create a better user
interface,
whichever standard, ISO 13250 or XTM that was chosen for the task at hand.<

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is the argument that the W3C uses to sell Schema too.  Users will
never have to look at the underlying syntax.

Yeah - right - until they get an error message and the whole thing
stops processing and then they have no way of looking under the
hood to determine why.

Been there done that.

I'm with Martin - keep it simple for the humans to do in the first place.

DW.