Whats the relationship of schemas to Web services?
That’s a very interesting question. It goes to the root of what the Web services community is struggling with. There are two factions in it right now: those who think of it in terms similar to EDI, or B2B transactions, and those who come to it from the perspective of the Semantic Web. One of the Web’s guiding principles is partial understanding. If I get a message I don’t completely understand, I still deal with it. In business, or commerce, if I don’t understand the whole message, if I send you a purchase order, and don’t understand the street address or the product description, you don’t do your best, you return it until we have an understanding. When you go the Web and look up the site for the bicycle, you might go to another page, but you figure out what you need to know. The question is: Are Web services going to act more like a commerce transaction, or is there no presumption of how things are set up ahead of time and you do your best with how the information is presented? For th
