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[James Anderson:] | much of the earlier parts of that posting [by Bosak], and most of this | thread, are, on the other hand, disheartening. there are two issues: | | the claims regarding "semantics": | the recommendation does, in deed, assert a semantic for xml documents. Before I can say anything, my past history as a copy editor compels me to state that there is no English noun "semantic." Sorry, I just had to point that out. It's evident from the postings by James Anderson and Paul Prescod that some people are taking the word "semantics" to mean something different from what I was responding to in the mention of the magazine article. The people who complain that XML does not have clearly defined semantics mean "semantics" the way I do -- as a synonym for "meaning". They are concerned that the meaning of a construction like <PATIENT_NAME>Jones~Jane</PATIENT_NAME> is not completely clear in the absence of a healthcare industry standard like HL7 PID. What I was saying is that the meaning of such a construction taken by itself is not just unclear, it really isn't there at all. I'm not saying anything one way or the other about "semantics" in the much more rarified sense used by some of the theorists in this thread. I'm only trying to clear up a lot of confusion running rampant out there among people who think that XML tag and attribute names have inherent semantics in the ordinary sense of the word. The theorists here already understand this; it's those other people throwing the word "semantics" around that I'm worried about. Jon 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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