RE: [xml-dev] "XML is just syntax" versus "Use semantic markup" (Is this

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

>   I meant, if there exists a XML Schema, and if a XML 
> document conforms to that Schema, then we can say what the 
> markup in XML means (like structure, data types etc.). And 
> correspondingly, software applications can be designed 
> conforming to this XML Schema.

Consider:

<oasis>pink</oasis>

An XML Schema might tell you that this document is valid, but it isn't going
to tell you what it means. Except perhaps in the comments - but that's no
different from any other documentation.

Michael Kay 
http://www.saxonica.com/