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Re: [xml-dev] Syntax versus Semantics (was: "vocabulary

From: Jonas Mellin <jonas.mellin@---.-->
To: rjelliffe@-------.---.--
Date: 3/2/2009 8:14:00 AM
rjelliffe@a... wrote:
> Is it 1998 again?
> 
> http://mailman.ic.ac.uk/pipermail/xml-dev/1998-June/004487.html
Hmm, perhaps its 1953-1956?
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/195309--.pdf
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/195503--.pdf

And, do not forget pragmatics.
http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/language/distinctions.html


> 
> 
> Computers only operate using symbols, therefore documents only contain
> "syntax". The "semantics" is the metamodel behind the surface syntax, and
> the alogrithms.
> 
> So if you did want a definition of semantics, you might use the idea of
> syntax and algorithms that applies to domain-specific metamodels rather
> than semantics and syntax that applies either immediate "surface" syntax
> (e.g. XPaths) or to generic metamodels (e.g. XSD components.)
> 
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
> 
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