Re: [office-metadata] validation

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

On Dec 13, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:

> Is this the common understanding that validation is harmful?

I think no; when people do "not harmful" posts it is to challenge 
conventional thinking.

It doesn't mean it's wrong though ;-)

> Or are schema just a part of metadata, which when documents are 
> electronically interchanged have to be mapped or agreed on?

One aspect of RDF's take on metadata is the so-called "open world" 
assumption, in which it is assumed that any number of people can make 
independent statements about resources. That by definition challenges 
conventional notions of XML document validation.

Dan Brickley has a long post on this:

<http://danbri.org/words/2005/07/30/114>

> Validation could be one scenario to compare xml:id and the rdfa 
> approach.

I think it's out of scope. It's certainly not within our requirements.

Bruce