On 27 July 2016 at 20:40, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > Consider on the one hand > <!ELEMENT DIV (P*)> > where order definitely _does_ matter, and on the other > <!ELEMENT BIB (BIBITEM*)> > where order (probably) doesn't. > This is a good example. It uses the DTD terminology, but it does convey the meaning. > > But it takes practical experience to know that > <p>Atlas shrugged</p><p>Rome fell</p> > conveys different information from > <p>Rome fell</p><p>Atlas shrugged</p> > but > <bibitem date="2016" title="Part 2"/> > <bibitem date="2015" title="Part 1"/> > is probably informationally equivalent to > <bibitem date="2015" title="Part 1"/> > <bibitem date="2016" title="Part 2"/> > I think, these two XML documents conform to the DTD mentioned earlier. And I do understand your point. > > There's perhaps some interesting space for value-add here in terms of > some meta-vocabulary for expressing when order matters, which might be > useful for generic visualisation tooling? > I can imagine, that solving this use case would be useful as you've said. > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged > spam] > -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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