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At 07:28 PM 4/23/98 +0100, Michael Kay wrote: > Paul Prescod wrote: >>If XML had no semantics, then XSL, XLL and the DOM would >have to >>explicitly describe the mapping from syntactic features to >the abstract >>nodes that they work on. But they do not, because XML has >semantic >>concepts like "element, "element type", "notation" and >"attribute" that >>are *described by* the syntax. > > >If those are semantic concepts, then what are the syntactic >concepts? tag, attribute specification, character data, entity reference. One problem in both the XML and SGML specifications is that the relationship between the syntactic tokens the language defines and the abstract objects intended to be constructed from those tokens is underspecified. Cheers, Eliot -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer Highland Consulting, a division of ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 95202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address> 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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