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Different people are describing it different ways. An "application of XML" would be generic enough. "Application" would be one step higher, and so also technically correct. "Format" would describe a particular document or specific DTD/schema. Grammar or syntax is what the XML spec describes. A vocabulary might be the specific "proprietary" set of tags used in a given deocument, DTD, or schema. "Class" is a technical word from XSL and CSS. Jeff Russell |-----Original Message----- |From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of |Hunter, David |Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:26 PM |To: 'XML-dev' |Subject: A question on nomenclature | | |<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...) | | 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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