Re: [xml-dev] The semantics of an XML document is …
Yeah! The semantics of semantics. Like the ontology of ontology. Is that meta-semantics, or does meta have a different meaning to the one it is usually given. That is meta-meta-semantics.
On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 18:27, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
I moved in the database world at a time when a lot of people were discussing the question "what is a conceptual schema?", and I decided then that if people couldn't agree what the term meant, I wasn't going to use it. I avoid the term "semantics" for exactly the same reason. (Perhaps it even means the same thing. Assuming that meaning is meaningful.)Michael KaySaxonicaOn 8 Jan 2022, at 18:01, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote:Eighteen years ago, I wrote “On Semantics and Markup”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/09/SemanticMarkupI think I still mostly believe everything in that essay. It addresses three questions:
- When is markup semantic?
- Is semantic-ness a binary condition?
- Where do semantics come from?
and ends with this summary:
- Descriptive markup is better than the alternatives.
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Stephen D Green