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Semantic: the means to choose. It is the choice that gives meaning. Apriori, it is a choice among means. Rules are not the semantic. Grammar is not the semantic. The semantic is behavior of choosing. Grammars and rules are means. <rant>We already have rules based and grammar based systems. So the split is there and it is a choice of leaving them separate and absorbing the cost of the maintenance of that, thus giving RDDL etc a requirement, or trying to combine them and setting XML Schema back a year or so. The harsh part of that is if we let it become fuzzy, this tech could die a bornin' and the XML initiative come to look silly. A lot of claims have been made for XML. Emphasizing how good our computer science is in the abstract is just as effective as proving one can outplay Louis Armstrong by playing a scale twice as fast as he could. Fact is, who cares. "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing..." So while y'all debate rules vs grammar, remember, the stock market is being beaten into swords again, people are becoming leary of the Internet companies, and we are responsible. Get a fix on the requirements and the use cases, not a bead on proving who can spin their propellor faster.</rant> Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Carr [mailto:mrc@a...] This is very interesting - I wonder if we might be heading for another split such as the one that saw XSL split into T and FO? The differences are becoming more pronounced, and the term "schema language" is starting to lack definition as a result. Eric (or anyone else), how do you differentiate between rules and semantics?
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