XML PE "semantics"

Mike Kay wrote the following on xml-dev:

> The XML specification does not use the term "semantic structure". It uses
> the word "semantic" twice:
> 
> (a) to say that it does not constrain the semantics of elements and
> attributes, other than those whose names beging with "xml"
> 
> (b) in 3.3.1, to say that the tokenized attributes such as ID, IDREFS "have
> varying lexical and semantic constraints".
> 
> These two statements are unfortunately contradictory, ...

We probably should be a little more careful.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Received on Monday, 31 October 2005 21:36:49 UTC