intrinsic meaning (was Re: [xml-dev] Marketplace XML Vocabularies)

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

Michael Kay wrote:
>> This is very different from RDF, where explicit URIs are 
>> used, 
> 
> I disagree. The URI http://www.ibm.com/plans-for-new-supercomputer.xml has
> no more intrinsic meaning than the tag <i>.

Thank you for saying that.  This point needs to be made regularly.

Strings of text, whatever form they take, have the meanings we give 
them.  We can certainly build systems around our expectations of those 
meanings, and hope we share those meanings, but let's always be cautious 
about just how tightly we can pin down any meaning.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/