Re: [xml-dev] xml:base and fragments

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Andrew S. Townley <ast@atownley.org> wrote:

Actually, the point of my peroration was that it wasn’t about what anyone but the text of the spec says.

Unfortunately, when you ask a spec what it *means* by what it says, you get a look that is not precisely blank but definitely uninformative.  Texts do not interpret themselves: they have to be interpreted by human beings who are either in an authoritative position by fiat or who are guided by an interpretive tradition that everyone around them accepts.

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John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org

C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant

le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,

de rapport nyait pas.               --Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"