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Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the


fuller s rule concrete
> 3) Allow you to apply semantic rules for a namespaced element that are
> specified in another document.  95% of the arguments in these threads are
> about the semantics, but XML is about syntax, not semantics.  So can we just
> drop all these other arguments, please?  If someone wants to put up a set of
> recommended semantic practices for xml, that is fine and can even be useful,
> just like best practices for code layout and commenting can be extremely
> useful.

I'm confused.  90% of what I've seen in the XMLNS branch of this thread is 
syntax, not semantics.  As I see it, the namespace name that gets reported 
when a processor comes across an attribute is a matter of syntax.  How it's 
interpreted is the semantics, and I don't think anyone has really brought that 
up (nor would I expect anyone to bring it up).  I see the namespace and local 
name of the nodes as the lexical tokens on which I build my semantic apps.  
After all, as a programmer, this is one of the things that attracted me to XML.

Then again, one man's syntax is another's semantics (are function names tokens 
or symbols?: it depends on your vocabulary and what is practical for your 
implementation: do you bloat the scanner, or do you incur the run-time 
over-head of a symbol table lookup?).

But it is certainly not undisputed fact that we're not dicsussing syntax here.


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