Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema is an instrument of our thoughts

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

I think with any XML schema all we are doing is expressing 
constraints on the expression of information. Nothing more.

Thoughts and communication are the semantic domains behind the 
generation of the information and behind the consumption of the 
information ... not on the expression itself of the information.

Hopefully the expression of the information is supportive to both 
semantic sides, but never is that guaranteed.

. . . . . . Ken

At 2023-01-02 13:13 +0000, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Every species has modes of communication. We use language for 
> communication, of course, but basically language is an instrument of 
> thought. Language is sometimes called audible thought. Almost all we 
> do with language is to construct thoughts in our mind. Sometimes we 
> externalize those thoughts-sometimes we communicate-but that's a 
> kind of a side property of language. [Noam Chomsky, 
> https://youtu.be/6LXHtDUXkS0?t=899]
>
> We have an idea for a language. We then specify the language via an 
> XML Schema. The XML Schema is an instrument of our thought. XML 
> instances that conform to the XML Schema is a mode of communicating 
> in that language.
>
> Comments?
>
> /Roger
>
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