Re: [xml-dev] descripton of the logical or semantic structure ?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com> was heard to say:
| The XML specification does not use the term "semantic structure". It uses
| the word "semantic" twice:
|
| (a) to say that it does not constrain the semantics of elements and
| attributes, other than those whose names beging with "xml"
|
| (b) in 3.3.1, to say that the tokenized attributes such as ID, IDREFS "have
| varying lexical and semantic constraints".
|
| These two statements are unfortunately contradictory, but then it's unusual
| to find two uses of the word "semantics" that attach the same meaning to the
| word.

Indeed. I expect we can clarify that a bit. XML allows a document
(actually a document type definition) author to impose some lexical
and semantic constraints on attributes (by giving them the types ID,
IDREF, IDREFS, ENTITY, ENTITIES, or NOTATION). But in that case, it
isn't XML that makes the constraints, it's the DTD author.

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                                          norm

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