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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > The recipient is always the one whose semantic interpretation matters - > unless, of course, they have a good reason ($$$, friendship, > convenience) to adopt the semantics of the sender as their own. > This is not only true for XML, when we discuss together on xml-dev or in "real" life, what makes the discussion interesting and enriching is that we, as readers, do not apply exactly the same semantic than the writer of a message. One of the virtue of the late binding intrinsic to XML is that the same principle applies to exchanges of documents: the receiver applies its own semantic and processing. This is enabling "intelligent" (and unexpected) processings of the documents that lead to the creation of added value. Receiver X can process the same document than receiver Y but make a different usage and get more information or value from this document than receiver Y. This is true for XML 1.0, with or without DTD (I have heard, no later than this morning, Ken Holman affirm that in XML, the semantic is defined by the processing, not by the model). While I can see some benefits for some applications to bring the semantic back into the model, for instance through schema and schema adjunct languages, I think that would also kill one of the most fundamental strengths of the XML model. My 0,02 Euros. Eric -- See you in Berlin for XML Europe 2001: http://gca.org/attend/2001_conferences/europe_2001/tutorialsmon.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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