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Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms


Re:  Co-operating with Architectural Forms

Bill Lindsey wrote:
>
> Seems to me that semantics are most naturally
> related to types. ... But we're not allowed to
> use that word here, huh?
> [...]
> What do we call the set of instances that can be
> mapped to a specific base architecture through a
> single architectural form?  What do we call the
> set of all instances amenable to processing by a
> single DSDL?  If we had names for these things, we
> might find we had a nice hook to which processors
> could attach semantics.

I like your term "representational form", but then
again I don't have a problem with the "document type"
either so I'll continue to use that :-)

> I'm becoming convinced that all XML documents have
> an important property and that we don't have a
> good name for that property.

Common Lisp has a notion that seems applicable to XML.
In Lisp, a type is just a predicate; a value belongs
to the type if the predicate returns non-NIL when
applied to the value.

> [ ... cogent analysis snipped ... ]

> What I don't know:
>    * Is the representational form
>      property intrinsic, extrinsic or emergent?

Maybe all three?  I don't think it's a single property
though; there are an infinite number of types to which
a particular XML document belongs, from the universal type
"well-formed XML" down to the singleton set "this document".

Some may be intrinsic by virtue of a declaration
(<!DOCTYPE ...>, xsi:schemaLocation, <?IS10744:arch ...?>,
etc).

>    * Is this property fixed for the life of the
>      document, or does it change over time?
>
>    * Could this property be also be obtained for
>      elements?

Sure, why not?


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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