RE: [xml-dev] Symbol Grounding and Running Code: Is XML Really Extensible?

From
Dare Obasanjo <>
To
Bob Foster <>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <>,
Date
2003-08-12T22:16:57Z
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RE: [xml-dev] Symbol Grounding and Running Code: Is XML Really Extensible?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:26 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); 
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Symbol Grounding and Running Code: Is 
> XML Really Extensible?
> 
> 
> Why not leave meaning the province of humans, who sometimes 
> write programs to give an operational "meaning" to XML 
> documents? The meaning is not intrinsic to the document; only 
> the syntax is.

Agreed. XML is about syntax and nothing else. People who think otherwise
have been misled by the XML hype of yesteryear.

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