Re: [xml-dev] [Shannon: information ~ uncertainty] Ramifications to XML data exchange?

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Micah Dubinko <>
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"Roger L. Costello" <>
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2004-10-11T14:57:32Z
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Re: [xml-dev] [Shannon: information ~ uncertainty] Ramifications to XML data exchange?
Roger L. Costello wrote:

>2. A schema is used to restrict the allowable forms that an instance
>document may take.  So doesn't a schema reduce information?
>  
>
I think you could rephrase that question as:

How much information is carried in the knowledge that a piece of XML is 
valid against a particular schema?

.micah

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