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On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 14:56 +0000, Roger L Costello wrote: > > Conclusion: it doesn't matter how you map one XML to another. If they > both elicit the same response in applications, then the mapping is > correct/equivalent. By definition. > Do you agree? Equivalence is context-dependent. That is, two things can be equivalent by one criterion but not another. In the case of your example, your behavioural semantics are the same as far as you have determined. But there might be other uses for the information. If I give you an ebook made of scanned page images, it might look the same in a particular reader as if i gave you an ebook with text in it, and you'd be happy, until you tried to search, or tried to increase the font size. Similarly, <i role="title">Titus Groan</i> and <i role="author">Mervyn Peake</i> might both display in Italic in your Web browser, so there's a sense in which they are equivalent. XML lives in the boundary between human knowledge and computer- accessible information, so to give computer behaviour priority over human understanding is often a mistake. liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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