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> <name> > <first/> > <middle/> > <last/> > </name> > > (James Tauber described this as a "schema-by-example") but what I really > want is the name that I would call that "class" of XML documents. In linguistic terms, you have a "grammar" defining a "language" which is really just a set of "utterances". In XML, a "grammar" is generally called a "schema" and an utterance is called an "instance". So what you are asking, if I understand correctly, is what is the term corresponding to "language". The term most consistent with the XML 1.0 REC would probably be "document type". So you would say you have a "schema" defining a "document type" which is really just a set of "instances". > but I don't care about that. I'm still leaning toward "vocabulary", because > that still seems to describe it best, but I'm still open too. (I think > "schema" is probably correct for what I'm trying to do as well, but that > would confuse readers with XML Schemas, which are just one type of "schema > description language"...) 1. Yes, people get confused between a schema and a schema language and use "schema" to mean both. 2. There is a distinction between a schema and the set of valid documents for that schema (ie a "document type"). It is the distinction between a grammar and the language it defines. So you could use the term "schema" for the *definition* of the set of valid documents (whether its a DTD, a W3C XML Schema or a schema-by-example), but the actual set of valid documents is best called something else (like "document type"). Hope this helps James Tauber 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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