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Re: The Exchange of Information

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:44:51 -0400

On 07/01/2014 06:22 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:

So all that stuff they told me in school about neurons, dendrites, axons
thresholds and synapses is wrong then.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org
<mailto:costello@mitre.org>> wrote:

    Hi Folks,____

    Inside our brain information is in parse trees:____

    ____

    The parse trees are structured according to a grammar, such as the
    English grammar.____

    When I want to communicate information to you I linearize the parse
    tree and transmit the linearization (i.e., the sentence) to you. You
    receive the sentence and immediately reconstruct the parse tree and
    apply semantics to the parse tree:____

    ____

    So information is exchanged by linearizing a parse tree,
    transmitting the sentence, and at the receiving end reconstructing
    the parse tree.____

    This is true for humans as well as for web services: A web service
    has information in a DOM (parse) tree, it linearizes (serializes)
    the DOM tree into an XML string, transmits the XML string, and the
    receiving web service reconstructs the parse tree and then applies
    semantics to it:____

    ____

    __ __

    Neat!____

    /Roger____

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    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
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