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Simon, You know the old doctor's joke that about how to diagnose alchoholism: anyone who drinks more than you do, and a teetotaler: anyone who drinks less... Generally the syntactic level of something is reserved for what you understand, and anything beyond what you understand is called 'semantics' :-) This is literally true because I can understand EBNF but I don't understand model theory. Jonathan > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 00:53, Mark Baker wrote: > > Re Simon's draft, I have a comment about this sentence; > > > > "While a list of > > namespaces cannot tell a recipient application everything about the > > use of those namespaces and there interactions in a given document, > > it can provide a baseline understanding." > > > > I don't think it helps with the "understanding" at all, by itself. You > > need the document's structure to provide the context necessary for > > extracting meaning. Without that context, "all" I think you get is some > > idea of what processors you'll need to process that document. That's an > > important optimization, but it's not "understanding". > > I agree, and I'll categorize the use of "understanding" as an > unfortunate accident on my part. Given my general hostility to things > semantic, it is definitely a slip. > > -- > Simon St.Laurent > Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets > Errors, errors, all fall down! > http://simonstl.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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