- From: Marc de Graauw <marc@marcdegraauw.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:13 +0200
- To: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "'Norman Walsh'" <ndw@nwalsh.com>, "'David Orchard'" <dorchard@bea.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
John Cowan: | Marc de Graauw scripsit: | | > | In shorter, a language is a (mathematical) set of XML documents. | > | > Which means giving an extensional definition of a language, | | How so? Most sets are defined intensionally. Quite right. I misinterpreted the intent of your previous post. | Otherwise, I think we are in violent agreement. Yes. As I pointed out previously (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Aug/0104.html) thinking of languages in terms of sets is the right thing to do in the context of versioning. Marc www.marcdegraauw.com
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