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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote: > Thanks Tim, Shaun, and Ihe for your excellent comments. > > Below I try to address some of your comments. > > Ihe wrote: > > If you wanted all such software programs to behave > uniformly with respect to the same syntax (please tell > me why you wouldn't) what do you think you'd end up with. > > If I wanted every software program to behave uniformly upon receiving, say, some geolocation data (and be agnostic to its data format), then I would do this: > > I would have a layer that converts the particular data format > into an abstract representation (perhaps as a list of values or > perhaps as a tree data structure) and then I would have a software > module (that is distributed to everyone) to process the geolocation > data. > > It's the fact that everyone is using the same software module that ensures common semantic interpretation. Common semantic interpretation is not achieved via a common syntax. > So how does that differ from AN Other schema language/vocabulary and AN Other schema parser to process it governed by AN Other set of standards?
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