Re: [xml-dev] The semantics of an XML document is …

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> In a computing context, I've always taken 'semantics' to refer to everything 'above' the level of 'syntax', in a cheerfully hand-waving way.
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Indeed, one the problems here is that the word has been used by computer scientists in a way that's completely different from its use in linguistics - and in the XML community, people are as likely to be linguists (linguisticists?) as computer scientists.

Michael Kay
Saxonica