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On 8/11/05, Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...> wrote: > Peter Hunsberger wrote: > > On 8/11/05, Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...> wrote: <snip/> > > ok, let's have more info : instead of <b>, let's use <xhtml:b> (with the > right namespace declaration) ; one can decide that <b> is used for > naming of a person (why not, even if it is certainly a bad choice), but > one can't decide the same for <xhtml:b>, because it really stands for > "bold" and nothing else > > a code that respect standards will no longer decide what <xhtml:b> is for > Ok, so you agree; the <xhtml:b> has meaning? (IE; it has implied semantics to the "code"). <snip> > > > > Respectfully disagree: structure and semantics are in the eye of the > > beholder: tell me is a blob of XML stored in a RDB structured or not? > > Does the same blob have any semantic meaning? What if the RDB can > > parse the blob into a SOAP descriptor? What if it used a grammar > > stored in another blob to do so? > > > > if the semantic structure of a blob in an RDBMS tells that it is XML, > then it is structured (whether this structure is easily accessible or > not is another story) > > -what about reading an XML file as binary data ? > -what about reading the files where are stored the tables of your RDBMS > in a vendor-dependant binary format ? > > if you ignore the structure, you won't have structured data I'm missing something; what's your point? -- Peter Hunsberger
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