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Tim Bray wrote: > > You know, this goes straight to the core of a deep issue. Where > I have often felt out of sync with the grove/property-set evangelists > is that I perceive syntax as fundamental and any particular > data model as ephemeral. I guess I must admit that I don't believe in > "information standards that are independent of lexical/syntax > representation". Fair enough. OTFOH, is it like DTDs, a matter of when and where you use them and for what? If for the sake of performance, clear text based standards must resolve to a binary standard (ie, the player only knows how to play a binary), then it may be the case that ANY clear text representation works as long as the values of the properties expressed are equivalent. In other words, the curly vs pointy bracket debates are only important to the loader. For that situation, what kind of standard expression is most useful for the sake of getting agreement on the application standard? For many years many of us relied on DTDs to do this and it worked pretty well. Now we have the concept of the well-formed (context-free) file. Because this approach is espoused on several lists now, and XML is touted as the example, the answers to these questions become more important. If answered, it might avoid a lot of work for a lot of people for a long time. len 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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