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RE: Fwd: Word of the day: upconversion

  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • To: "'Jim Tivy'" <jimt@bluestream.com>,"'Dave Pawson'" <davep@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:46:19 +0100

RE: Fwd:  Word of the day: upconversion
ion
> 
> How about an upconversion spectrum like:
> 
> noise --> human readable ---> machine readable
> 
> Of course it does beg the question about what machine 
> readable means - do machines read - what does it mean to say 
> something is machine readable.

I think what is really happening is that external knowledge of the rules
governing the structure of the text is being translated into an internal
(in-band) representation of the structure at the instance level. No new
information is being created: it's just being made more digestible.

Regards,

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



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