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Point 5: Make XML and SOAP really self-describing
- XML is not really self-describing at this stage in its development.
- Tim BL: An encrypted document is screaming "decrypt me!"
- Dependencies with Schema and XSLT - and now we want to add the Semantic Web as a dependency!
- Yet easy to make a XML vocabulary that says directly in the document "Decrypt me!" or "Call a Web Service and puts its return value here!"
- Henry Thompson is working on lambdaXML to do exactly that...
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<Person>
<name>Roger Smith</name>
<age><lx:WebService location="sws:getAge" argument="/Person/name" /></age>
</Person>