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On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 14:49, Paul Prescod wrote: > "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > My answer to the whole mess is simple: there ain't any meaning, just > > labels and structures. Anything else is a bonus or a nightmare, > > depending. > > If you see labels and structures where there is only "really" a string > of Unicode characters then I think you've extracted some meaning. > Semantic problems always seem insoluble because after we solve them > (e.g. figuring out how to say that an element is an integer), we don't > consider that a semantic problem any more. Fair enough - I just have few expectations for general success above the label/structure level. Semantics do seem to get more difficult for computers as we move further and further from ones and zeros. I don't think we've begun to address the possibilities of XML's relatively easy 'lexical' level, so I'll leave semantics to the rest of you brave warriors. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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