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RE: "XML is just syntax" versus "Use semantic markup" (Is this

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Mukul Gandhi'" <gandhi.mukul@g...>,"'bryan rasmussen'" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:41:29 -0000

>   I meant, if there exists a XML Schema, and if a XML 
> document conforms to that Schema, then we can say what the 
> markup in XML means (like structure, data types etc.). And 
> correspondingly, software applications can be designed 
> conforming to this XML Schema.

Consider:

<oasis>pink</oasis>

An XML Schema might tell you that this document is valid, but it isn't going
to tell you what it means. Except perhaps in the comments - but that's no
different from any other documentation.

Michael Kay 
http://www.saxonica.com/

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