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> Here are some examples of things that can provide semantics for XML > documents: [...] > * Stylesheeets. Sorry to bring it up again, but I still think we should distinguish semantics from behaviour. Stylesheets *do not* provide semantics, they provide behaviour. Sure, how something behaves ought to be linked to what it means but it ain't the stylesheet that's providing the meaning. Meaning/semantics is surely given by schemata that associate element types, etc with ontologies. [...] > XSL will provide what is intended to be the most > powerful standardized high-level way to associate presentational > semantics with XML documents in publishing environments. "Presentational semantics" is mixing two distinct things, IMHO. James -- James Tauber / jtauber@j... Perth, Western Australia XML Pages: http://www.jtauber.com/xml/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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