Re: [xml-dev] Is XML a language or a data format?

[Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>]

On 14/07/2022 11:27, Michael Kay wrote:
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> A traffic light can only send out a small finite set of messages 
> ("Stop", "Go", "Get Ready") and we wouldn't normally call such a
> small set of utterances a language, because it doesn't have
> sufficient expressive power; but in any rigorous definition of what a
> language is, it's very likely to qualify. There is certainly a
> grammar:
>
> SIGNAL := RED | GREEN | AMBER | RED+AMBER
Where RED+AMBER, while allowed by the grammar [2], is mostly a feature
of the UK dialect of the language [1], and BLUE is the Japanese
for GREEN. [1]

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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tgraham@antenna.co.jp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#Variations
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#Meanings_of_signals