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

Markup does not apply semantics. Semantics are applied to the markup.

That's crisp.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@mitre.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:52 AM
To: Len Bullard
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] "XML is just syntax" versus "Use semantic markup" (Is this a paradox?)

Hi Len,

> Roger, did you have any particular goal for this?

Yes!

I wanted a crisp explanation by the XML community of how these seemingly contradictory statements are reconciled: "XML is just syntax" and "Use semantic markup"

/Roger

From: Len Bullard [mailto:len.bullard@uai.com]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:24 PM
To: Richard Salz; 'Mukul Gandhi'; Costello, Roger L.
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] "XML is just syntax" versus "Use semantic markup" (Is this a paradox?)

So, is XML statistically meaningless prior to applying a process or only statistically meaningful without one?    I'm not a Chomskyan but I'm not a rabbit either.

It's in the way that you use it.   IOW, '**Use** semantic markup' is the answer to the question it is part of.

I'm surprised this thread is back.   Roger, did you have any particular goal for this?

len

From: Richard Salz [mailto:rsalz@us.ibm.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously

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