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Re: On Schemas, Namespaces and Syntax vs. Semantics (long

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• Subject: Re: On Schemas, Namespaces and Syntax vs. Semantics (long but worth it) :)
• From: Daniel Dui <d.dui@c...>
• Date: 31 Jul 2002 15:08:59 +0100
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On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 23:17, Tim Bray wrote:
> ... one of the virtues of descriptive markup a la XML is that you 
> get to choose what semantics you want to apply. 

???

That would mean that...

<moneyTransfer>
  <amount>$1,000,000</amount>
  <account>daniel_account_number</account>
  <account>tim_account_number</account>
</moneyTransfer>

which means "transfer $1,000,000 from daniel_account_number to
tim_account_number", but I can chose to apply the semantics: "transfer
$1,000,000 from tim_account_number to daniel_account_number"

-daniel


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