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Re: Relating mathematics to XML -- using properties forenablin

  • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:24:44 +0100

Re:  Relating mathematics to XML -- using properties forenablin
On 25/07/2012 14:00, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> a @ b = b @ a                                for any a, b
>
> a @ (b @ c) = (a @ b) @ c            for any a, b, c
>
> a @ 0 = 0 @ a = a                          for any a
>
> then you probably understand that I am talking about the addition
> operation.

Not at all: you just have operations from for a commutative semigroup so
@ could be any operation at all where a and b are elements of the group
and 0 is its unit. So it could be multiplication for example, the unit
for multiplicative groups are normally written as 1 but as you noted
"other symbols could be used" and 0 is just as good a symbol.

What does this mean for XML? Not much, other than terms mean what they
are defined to mean in the given context, and if you take them out of
context they don't mean anything:-)

David


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