Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment

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John Cowan <>
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"Timothy W. Cook" <>
Date
2013-11-14T18:17:38Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment



On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Timothy W. Cook <[email protected]> wrote:

> Your XML file has no semantic context.  Therefore they are free to
interpret it as they wish, not necessarily how you meant it.

No XML file has semantic content.  Indeed, semantics (or, if you prefer, pragmatics — as far as I am concerned, it is a distinction without a difference) is the effect a message has on the recipient, and has nothing to do with the sender's intentions.

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