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RE: Syntax versus Semantics (was: "vocabulary constraints

• From: rjelliffe@a...
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:22:26 +1100 (EST)

Is it 1998 again?

http://mailman.ic.ac.uk/pipermail/xml-dev/1998-June/004487.html


Computers only operate using symbols, therefore documents only contain
"syntax". The "semantics" is the metamodel behind the surface syntax, and
the alogrithms.

So if you did want a definition of semantics, you might use the idea of
syntax and algorithms that applies to domain-specific metamodels rather
than semantics and syntax that applies either immediate "surface" syntax
(e.g. XPaths) or to generic metamodels (e.g. XSD components.)

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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