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Re: generalized markup / generic markup

• To: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: generalized markup / generic markup
• From: "ludger goeke" <ludgergoeke@g...>
• Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:02:11 +0100 (MET)
• References: <40911.203.51.20.11.1130817106.squirrel@i...>

 covers the term "generalized markup" also the feature that the user can
 define his own Generic Identifier ?

 Does the markup of the "generic markup" concept describes an unambiguously
logical role of a component of a text, or is its describtion
more universal ? 

Regards 
Ludger






> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
> An: xml-dev@l...
> Betreff: Re:  generic markup
> Datum: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:51:46 +1100 (EST)
> 
> ludger goeke said:
> >
> > I wrote the term generic markup in a lot of xml literature but I'm not
> > shure
> > what it really means ? Does it describes the fact that the user is able
> to
> > define his own markup or does it describes the fact that the markup
> > describes the content of a document in a semantic way ?
> 
> "Generic" markup refers to the practise of adding simple labels to ranges
> of text.
> 
> "Generalized" markup refers to the practise of adding simple labels
> (elements) which can themselves have metadata (attributes) to ranges of
> text, according to some grammar.
> 
> Sometimes the terms "generic" is used by mistake when "generalized" is
> meant.
> 
> "Generic" is associated with GCA GenCoding ('67). "Generalized" is
> associated with IBM's GML ('73), ISO's SGML ('86) and W3Cs XML ('96).
> 
> For more, refer
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200304/msg00769.html
> http://xml.coverpages.org/rifkinXMarks.html
> http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
> 
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
> 
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