carpe decorum

Windows and Standard Schema

Just a reminder to self to see Windows types and other types, Jon Udell's comments on the major classes of XML documents, RPC-SOAP and document-oriented ones, with the lovely commonality these offer and the future possibilities:

Finally, I've drawn attention to a remarkable synergy that InfoPath, most notably, makes possible. The message payloads exchanged on the Web services network, and the documents read and written by people, can be the same texts, governed by the same datatype and structure definitions. And those texts are universal in scope, not tied to any platform or framework. True, InfoPath is a Windows-only creature, but since it's built on open standards, InfoPath-like software can exist on other platforms and can interoperate with InfoPath.

But,

We have yet to even scratch the surface of what's possible given these circumstances. And now here comes WinFS with its own proprietary schema language.