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Re: more on "subelement signicance"

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:36:24 -0400

On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 16:20, Seairth Jacobs wrote:
>    The usefulness of any given subelement is due to the knowledge of its
> namespace, document type, and/or parent element.  Without any of the three,
> the subelement does not have a useful meaning.

I'd further constrain that to either

"does not have a useful intrinsic meaning" or

"does not have a useful meaning beyond that which you give it"

It's always possible to take content, strip it of context, and put it
into your own context.

Of course, I tend to go into convulsions whenever I hear the word
"meaning" used without irony.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue

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