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Jeff Rafter wrote: > There seems a great similarity-- as the critical school moved away from > treating poems as works which have a stable meaning-- or answer, if you > will-- the nature of poetic criticism changed and the readership > widened. It > seems in the XML community there are two distinct poles-- XML as > data with a > stable meaning (object serialization / schema / infoset items) > and XML as a > changing document where the language itself carries semantic value. A parallel in music can be seen in the "authenticity" movement[1] (e.g. Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music) which is after the elusive goal of conveying the composer's true intentions by re-creating the original historical setting as faithfully as possible. What this fails to recognize is that the meaning(s) of a piece are inextricably bound to the instance as performed in a particular context by a particular artist (not merely a "technician"). And that this fact should be celebrated, not decried (or denied)! Interestingly enough, a pipeline approach to XML processing[2] seems particularly compatible with the acceptance of the dynamic nature of meaning and its multiple contributors. Contrast this with a monolithic system that declares once and for all the way things should be interpreted from beginning to end[3]. (Stravinsky being one of my favorite composers, I've always been baffled by his tyrannical stance on interpretations of his own music.) Evan Lenz [1] http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/encyclopedia.html [2] http://xpipe.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/XML_MetaArchitecture.html
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