Re: [xml-dev] Is an XML vocabulary a Domain Specific Language (DSL)?

I'd say it depends if it is (directly or indirectly) executed (by a computer).

 

UBL - not usually (to have a business order or invoice document being 'executed' by a computer would be unusual, and alarming to auditors for one thing, perhaps with a few exceptions such as internal trading orders between departments in the same organisation, and it wasn't really designed for that example)

 

XSD - yes

RSS - ???

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Stephen D Green

On 12 September 2012 11:59, Costello, Roger L. <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Folks,

If I create an XML vocabulary, then have I created a DSL?

Yesterday I heard someone say, "A configuration file is a DSL."

So if I create an XML-formatted configuration file, then I have created a DSL. Right?

Are there some XML vocabularies that would be considered DSL's and other XML vocabularies that would not be considered DSL's?

Is RSS a DSL?

Is UBL a DSL?

Is XSD a DSL?

/Roger

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