On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:09 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Sally says, "XML Schema specifies just syntax."
>
> John says, "XML Schema specifies semantics."
>
> Who is correct?
Neither.
XML Schema Documents can define a grammar for a language that
applications (including people) can imbue with meaning.
The same is true for other syntaxes, such as RDF/Turtle, RDF/N3,
RDF/XML. The existence of the last of these is a proof that, if RDF can
convey semantics, and if an RDF graph, once transmitted over RDF/XML,
and reconstituted, still has the same semantics, RDF/XML can contain
semantics, and therefore XML can contain semantics (and so can ASCII,
and so can ethernet electrical signals...).
Liam
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Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
