Re: [xml-dev] The Exchange of Information

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

On 07/01/2014 06:22 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> So all that stuff they told me in school about neurons, dendrites, axons
> thresholds and synapses is wrong then.
Roger's talking about a different level of abstraction, but I've never 
found these claims remotely persuasive.

It is fun to watch linguists argue, though.

Thanks,
Simon


> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org
> <mailto:costello@mitre.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,____
>
>     Inside our brain information is in parse trees:____
>
>     ____
>
>     The parse trees are structured according to a grammar, such as the
>     English grammar.____
>
>     When I want to communicate information to you I linearize the parse
>     tree and transmit the linearization (i.e., the sentence) to you. You
>     receive the sentence and immediately reconstruct the parse tree and
>     apply semantics to the parse tree:____
>
>     ____
>
>     So information is exchanged by linearizing a parse tree,
>     transmitting the sentence, and at the receiving end reconstructing
>     the parse tree.____
>
>     This is true for humans as well as for web services: A web service
>     has information in a DOM (parse) tree, it linearizes (serializes)
>     the DOM tree into an XML string, transmits the XML string, and the
>     receiving web service reconstructs the parse tree and then applies
>     semantics to it:____
>
>     ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Neat!____
>
>     /Roger____