- From: David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 09:30:35 -0700
- To: "Rushforth, Peter" <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>, "public-microxml@w3.org" <public-microxml@w3.org>
>> Peter Virtually everything has to deal with links between resources. ----------- Absolutely untrue. I cant measure it (and dont know how ... ) but ancedotially I can say that the fraction of XML documents I myself have run into that contain linking between resources is < 1% if that. Others experience will vary, but I can assert that it is completely untrue that "virtually all" XML documents need linking. >> Peter Eliminating DTDs just eliminates a way of reserving your vocabulary, and a syntax to go with it; it doesn't eliminate the need to reserve your vocabulary. ------ Completely disjoint from predefining the *meaning* of the vocabulary. >> Peter David, I honestly don't understand what you mean by layers. I would like to see a diagram and text explaining layers. ---- This is well beyond something I could (or have time) to expound on here, and is best left off list. >> Peter HTML and XML to me are in the same 'layer'. HTML is a completely reserved vocabulary, while XML reserves very little. --- HTML is a defined vocabulary (semantics) AND a syntax. XML is a syntax and not a defined vocabulary. It can be used to express (nearly) any vocabulary but IMHO one of its best feature is that it does not impose a specific vocabulary. Thus the range of data it can model cleanly is at an entirely different dimension then HTML. There are a lot of other equally or more accurate ways of saying it but they are very very different.
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