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> Well, here I am off being the theorist again. Mind if I join you :-) > Just like you, I use semantics and meaning interchangably > also (at least I > think I do). If you've taught an XML course recently, I'll > bet you find > yourself saying: "this syntax *means* that..." (e.g. "The > start tag means > that an element has begun.") That's right. XML, as a language, has semantics, syntax and also presentation. I would suggest all languages do. But you are right about different levels. We need to be careful whether we are talking about XML as a language or XML documents. The latter express principally syntax which is then associated with semantics (in schemata, which can also say something about syntax) and with presentation and behaviour (in stylesheets, or as I prefer to call them, behaviour sheets). James -- James Tauber / jtauber@j... Perth, Western Australia XML Pages: http://www.jtauber.com/xml/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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