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<name> <first/> <middle/> <last/> </name> A simple question. What is that? My choices so far: -an "application of XML", or possibly just "application", although this would cause confusion with "application" as defined in the spec. -a "vocabulary" (the one I personally use, although I may change after this thread...) -a "grammar" Keep in mind I'm talking about the "structure" there, not the "instance" of that "structure". (I want to describe the "class", not the "object".) I have a feeling that there isn't a real consensus anywhere, and that different people are using different names. (Are there any others? Do people use "format", or something along those lines? Or "class"?) It's not something that I would ever have to worry about when using XML in my applications, but if I were to, oh, I don't know, write a book about XML, I'd want to create as little confusion as possible, so would I be safe in calling the structure I created a "vocabulary"? Do things get hairier if we get into formats documented in DTDs/Schemas, and documents with no DTD or Schema, or does the nomenclature stay the same? Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated. Any documentation that I've missed which states emphatically "this is what you would call it" would be even more appreciated, but I don't think it's out there... David Hunter MobileQ david.hunter@m... http://www.MobileQ.com 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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