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Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms

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• Subject: Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:46:18 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3C59DBBE.5F522D78@p...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 07:05 pm, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > Sounds kind of like groves...
>
> Grove nodes have one and only one node type. Even Steve hasn't been
> radical enough to suggest that any grove property should suffice as
> the node type.

My assertion is that 'type' is determined by the thing looking at the 
data, not something intrinsic to  the data itself. 

> The GI is the name of the type. 

If interpreted that way... anyway, the point is that the element 
'has-a' GI that a processor can use in it's deduction of type.

I'm kind of comparing XML DOM (has-a) to HTML DOM (is-a). 

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    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms
    • From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
  • Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms
    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>

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