[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone
Ok, so let me muddy the waters again. From the Free Online Dictionary of Computing http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?standards "standard semantics The standard interpretation of a term in some language yields the term's standard denotational semantics, i.e. its "meaning". This is usually given by a semantic function which maps a term in the abstract syntax to a point in some domain. The domain is the interpretation of the term's type. The semantic function also takes an environment - a function which maps the free variables of the term to their meaning. We say that a domain point "denotes", or "is the denotation of", a term. A non-standard semantics results from some other interpretation, e.g. an abstract interpretation." len -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] I just read Pete's posting after writing up my own (cf. "A conceptual excursion"). I sense a convergence of some sort occurring.... On xml-dev???!??!!!? Can't be.
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