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RE: Objections to / uses of PSVI?

• To: "'W. E. Perry'" <wperry@f...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Objections to / uses of PSVI?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:08:25 -0500

No problem.   It corresponds moreorless with the 
view that artha as "wealth" can mean worldly power, 
money, etc.   It is a means to multiply choices 
for my particular interpretation and I confess, 
that is a late interpretation.   Semantic is a 
buggy word in these parts, but I generally interpret 
it as the formal or legal set of operations that 
can be applied to data.  So we aren't that far 
apart.

For me, the infoset is a useful abstraction.  It 
only exists as a way of labeling.  Still, it is 
hard for me to figure out how to get interoperability 
without some set of labels to name the bytes 
corresponding to an element, attribute, and so on. 
The DOM is an API.  Being able to name the things 
an implementation of an API operates on is useful. 

However, the InfoSet as an Implementation is an 
application, not XML.  That is the point Simon 
is driving home and I agree with.  The rub is 
as he points out, it doesn't need XML The Syntax 
as anything other than just another serialization 
format.  I thought that was a major benefit of 
the Infoset: that one could deal with Virtual XML 
without actually using that syntax.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: W. E. Perry [mailto:wperry@f...]

As a technical term of the Sanskrit grammarians, artha (sorry, Len) signifies
what is usually meant by 'semantics' in xml-dev discussions:  a 'meaning'
expressing the 'purpose' or 'intent' of the author. Thus understood, artha
is the product of vivaksa, the impetus to utterance. The 'syntactic' school,
if I may anachronistically call them that, built a competing understanding
of language around the term sphota, literally a 'bursting' or
'blooming'--the instance manifestation.

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