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I like the term "XML vocabulary". To me, "grammar" is too narrow - it's focussed on syntax, not semantics. A vocabulary says what can appear in the document, and explains what it means. "Ontology" also tries to do that, but it's wrong: ontology, (cf methodology), is the study of how to organize things, it's not the output of a specific study of a particular area. And while ontology gives you a model of the things you are talking about, it doesn't give you a concrete representation of those things in XML. "Language" is OK in principle, but I think it confuses: if you use "language" at this level then you get embroiled in a discussion of whether XML is a language and if not, what the L stands for. Michael Kay Saxonica On 15/11/2012 02:20, Graham Hannington wrote: > Terminology question: does one define an XML vocabulary, an XML grammar, > an XML language (".... Language language"), or something else? > > I think that an XML schema is something that describes "the thing", not > the thing itself (feel free to argue otherwise). > > I tend to use the term "XML vocabulary", because I think that I am > defining something that follows the grammar of XML. But I can see how one > might say that an "XML grammar" (as Shomi uses the term) introduces its > own specific grammatical rules (that is, not just names), within the > bounds of XML grammar, and is therefore itself a grammar. > > Is there a standard term? > > Graham Hannington > > Fundi Software Pty Ltd 2012 ABN 89 009 120 290 > > > This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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