RE: Fwd: [xml-dev] Word of the day: upconversion

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

ion
> 
> How about an upconversion spectrum like:
> 
> noise --> human readable ---> machine readable
> 
> Of course it does beg the question about what machine 
> readable means - do machines read - what does it mean to say 
> something is machine readable.

I think what is really happening is that external knowledge of the rules
governing the structure of the text is being translated into an internal
(in-band) representation of the structure at the instance level. No new
information is being created: it's just being made more digestible.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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