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Re: RE: description of the logical or semantic structure

• To: ludger goeke <ludgergoeke@g...>
• Subject: Re: RE: description of the logical or semantic structure
• From: Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...>
• Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:42:23 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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ludger goeke wrote:
> for example I got the following xml-document 
> 
> 
>  <!DOCTYPE  Person [ 
> <!ELEMENT Person (Name, Age)>
> <!ELEMENT Name(#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT Age(#PCDATA)>
> ]>
>  
> <Person>
>    <Name>Peter Smith</Name>
>    <Age>56</Age>
> </Person>
> 
> 
> Does the markup describes  the content for example  "Peter Smith" in a
> semantic way, that means does it describes that 
> the content "Peter Smith" has the semantic of a name ? Or describes the
> markup the logical role of the content "Peter Smith" 
> and a the processing Software adds the semantic ?
> 
> Regards Ludger
> 
> 

there is the same semantic that you would have in a relational database 
: if you would have a table named "Person" that contains 2 fields, 
"Name" and "Age", what would be the semantic ?

if you agree that it must be understandable as a name and an age of a 
person, this could be the same in the XML structure than in your RDBMS

but it's only convention, XML doesn't carry semantics itself
IMHO, i think that when a convention has been made on the meaning of 
elements and attributes, people that have the knowledge of the 
convention consider that the structure has semantics ; they can now 
build applications with these considerations

just like with RDBMS

-- 
Cordialement,

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           (. .)
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|   Philippe Poulard    |
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