- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:12:27 +0100
- To: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Cc: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
At 09:47 PM 5/18/01 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote: >perhaps the greatest benefit of XML is that its surface syntax directly >represents its abstract syntax, and for someone familiar with XML, this >means that one can look at a document, even in the absense of a schema, and >get a pretty good idea of its structure. Hmmm... I was speaking with an old friend over the weekend, and touched upon this general topic. He made an observation (which I may relay imperfectly) to the effect that one difficulty encountered by much early AI research could to traced to the idea that giving something a meaningful name could not be equated with giving it a meaning. This struck me as similar to some of the things Pat has said about semantics of RDF (or any language). Turning to XML: I don't think the structure of a typical XML document would be anything like as clear if the tag/attribute names were replaced by random strings. #g ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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