Re: [xml-dev] The Exchange of Information

[Piotr Bański <bansp@o2.pl>]

Hi Roger,

I always appreciate your attempts to look for analogies and neat ways to
communicate sometimes difficult topics, but you need to be warned that
what you've sketched is a blissfully naive and totally obsolete view of
communication and the human language faculty. I suggest you chuck that
book away and get something recent instead :-)

And if you persist by using the analogy (you've sent something along
these lines only a few months ago, after all), I advise you to make sure
to indicate to the reader that the first picture is only simplistic, or
else you risk losing the reader's confidence right after that first
paragraph.

Best regards,

  Piotr

On 01/07/14 11:38, Costello, Roger L. 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
>