RE: [higgins-dev] Schema Languages (was Revised Higgins datamodelgoals)

["Paul Trevithick" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just removed every use of the word "language" WRT schemas in
http://spwiki.editme.com/RevisedDataModelGoalsM4 . Gives us more freedom in
the CPI method design.

Paul wrote:
> 
> 
> Jim wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > If we have a single data model to represent Contexts and DS's, I assume
> > we want a single model for the schema that governs instances of that
> > data. I'm not sure why we're talking about schema languages, or even
> > what that means,
> 
> I used the word 'language' because my presumption was that whereas the CPI
> interface will support API methods to visit, read, write, etc. the objects
> using the Higgins abstract data model, I wasn't assuming a similar kind of
> interface to the schema language/representation/data. My thinking is
> colored
> by the fact that in the current Higgins code a Context Provider has a
> single
> getSchema() method that returns the entire thing in a stream. Hence my
> bias
> in choosing the word 'language'. This is truly a nit. You can replace my
> use
> of the word language with representation. I was also trying not to use the
> word model again.
>