- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:19:55 -0400
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Al Gilman scripsit: > My religion says model first, then bind to syntax. Not sure it matters.] My religion, which is a superset of your religion (nya nya), says that concrete syntax is often a useful intuition pump; what's more, you can't actually write down your model without using some syntax or other (even if it's an awkward one, like formal English prose); bare semantics is as nonexistent as bare singularities. But I agree that the outcome is what matters here. > Remind me: are <article-number>s portable across servers? Or are > these independently assigned as the messages are received at the server? They are not in the general case portable across servers. There is ancillary software which can make them so in particular cases, but this is not generally done except where creating exact mirrors is necessary. -- I am expressing my opinion. When my John Cowan honorable and gallant friend is called, jcowan@reutershealth.com he will express his opinion. This is http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the process which we call Debate. --Winston Churchill
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