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Michael Kay wrote: > > From: W. Eliot Kimber > > Remember that notations do not affect the *parsing* of the data, only its > > semantic interpretation. > > If that is so, I am back to square zero in my understanding of notations! > > For example, I thought that if I wanted to put MIDI data in an XML document, > I would use notations to the indicate the fact. But I can't semantically > interpret MIDI data (or even hear the music) before I've parsed it. The > notation is surely there to tell me that it's MIDI, not that it's Vivaldi. I think what Eliot means is that a generic parser does not treat the notated (notationized? annotated?) data any differently. (In fact, a non-validating parser might not even know that it carries a notation.) The parser parses the data in the same way it parses any other character data and passes it to the application. It is then up to the *application* to interpret the data according to the notation. For example, assuming MIDI data is binary, it might carry two notations. The first would indicate that it is base64-encoded -- remember that this is still character data -- and the second would indicate that it is MIDI data. Based on the first notation, the application would pass the character data to a base64 decoder to translate it to binary. Based on the second notation, the application would pass the now-binary data to a MIDI application, which could play it for your enjoyment. -- Ron Bourret 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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