- From: John Day <jday@csihq.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:44:19 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Paul Butkiewicz" <arabbit@earthlink.net>, "Andrew M. Kuchling" <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us>, <www-dom@w3.org>
- Cc: <xml-sig@python.org>
At 02:29 PM 12/11/98 -0500, Paul Butkiewicz wrote: >OK, I hadn't really thought about that. But can you come up with a way of >ordering nodes that deserves to be defined as part of a global and timeless >standard instead of being merely implementation specific? > > The branch of mathematics called "Order Theory" (a subset of Discete Math) is already a 'global and timeless standard'. I don't think we would want to dictate any specific orders. That should be left to specific implementors. Example: Compare two documents: the Bible and the Koran. Under the concept 'testaments of religious beliefs' they are virtually identical. Under the concept '<somebody's personal beliefs>', the books might be completely different. [Jon Bosak's 'tstmt.dtd' is a kind of 'most general unifier' for the first concept above] -jday
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