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- To: "Bob Foster" <bob@objfac.com>,"Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@ingr.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Symbol Grounding and Running Code: Is XML Really Extensible?
- From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:16:57 -0700
- Thread-index: AcNhHu6anChjLdqETnmx4ZHEZonfpQAAD51w
- Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Symbol Grounding and Running Code: Is XML Really Extensible?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@objfac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:26 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Symbol Grounding and Running Code: Is
> XML Really Extensible?
>
>
> Why not leave meaning the province of humans, who sometimes
> write programs to give an operational "meaning" to XML
> documents? The meaning is not intrinsic to the document; only
> the syntax is.
Agreed. XML is about syntax and nothing else. People who think otherwise
have been misled by the XML hype of yesteryear.
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