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Hi Roger, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote: > Â Â 1. Say your name out loud. > > Â Â 2. Say "your name" out loud. > > In the first sentence we expect to hear that person's name. In the second sentence we expect to hear the words, "your name." > > In the first sentence the words "your name" are semantic entities. In the second sentence the words "your name" are syntactic entities. > > By quoting the words we have turned off the normal semantic interpretation of the words. Personally, I would agree to your interpretation above, from point of view of an 'English linguistic description' (I'm not really quite sure, whether this quoted phrase conveys to English audience, what I want to convey. I hope this phrase, makes sense :)). > Â Â 1. <altitude> > > Â Â 2. <altitude> > > In the first case we expect an XML parser to process it as an element. In the second case we expect an XML parser to process it as literal text. I agree. > In the first case <altitude> is a semantic entity to an XML parser. In the second case > <altitude> is a syntactic entity to an XML parser. I would agree with, Piotr that we should not equalize English linguistics domain, with XML parsing theory. An XML parser I think, makes sure that, a stream of unicode characters which the user thinks is XML, is *really* XML. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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