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Re: English sentences, was: Re: Announce: XMLSchema,

• To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@a...>
• Subject: Re: English sentences, was: Re: Announce: XMLSchema,
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 27 Jun 2002 14:07:16 +0200
• Cc: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>,"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>,'xml-dev' <xml-dev@l...>
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On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 13:30, Jonathan Borden wrote:

> Recognizing and processing natural language is something that's been done
> for a couple of decades -- albeit imperfectly -- and as I am sure you are
> aware, the grammar(s) are complicted -- what is generally needed is some
> notion of the intended semantics of the sentences. In any case, this example
> isn't a good use case for XML schema languages and 'validity'.

No, but it is a good use case for extensibility in XML schema languages.

If you are happy with the result of the unix "file" command to determine
the type of a text and see if it's more likely a Java source code, a
snippet of Python or an English text, you may want to validate the
document using its result instead of the code.

I am actually considering implementing pyxie based transformations into
xvif to allow this kind of features:

http://bugzilla.xmlschemata.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14

Eric
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