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Offsite XML Design Pattern: Composition
This page reviews an XML design pattern that is located at an external website.

Abstract:

From the pattern: "Wherever possible, define the format using existing standards, referencing their elements by namespace rather than rolling your own. For example, add metadata to your metadata using RDF and the Dublin Core extensions rather than inventing your own <author> and <description> tags. Allows for independent evolution of markup by parties who know the business domain best."


Discussion:

This pattern is from Kyle Downey's article Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents.



Related Patterns:

The Composition Pattern is a sub set of the Reuse Document Type Pattern


Link:

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