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Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:33:15 -0500

On 11/14/13 1:17 PM, John Cowan wrote:

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Timothy W. Cook <tim@mlhim.org
<mailto:tim@mlhim.org>> wrote:

     > Your XML file has no semantic context.  Therefore they are free to
    interpret it as they wish, not necessarily how you meant it.


No XML file has semantic content.  Indeed, semantics (or, if you prefer,
pragmatics — as far as I am concerned, it is a distinction without a
difference) is the effect a message has on the recipient, and has
nothing to do with the sender's intentions.

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