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XML is and only is that except for DTDs where elements types declare named types. Hard to escape that one ex cathedra. Sure: XML Doesn't Care About Your Semantics. You do so code for them. On the other hand, that namespace URI is handy if you don't care who else doesn't care about your semantics. Are you a turtle, Mike? :-) (and now we find out who the old space program fans are) len From: Michael Champion [mailto:michaelc.champion@g...] My point was more or less "XML is just labeled data". What meaning you as a human, your simple code, your bleeding edge OWL-inferencer, or your Sci-Fi Strong AI impute to those labels is not XML's business. However high you stack these turtles, the only thing at the bottom of the stack is the primitive notion of a "label". > We ask the top turtle it's name. As long > the top turtle remains balanced, we > don't worry about the name of his subordinate being > correct because we don't have to care. Otherwise, > we ask the top turtle to name his turtle. I think we have tortured this metaphor in different ways to extract the same confession :-)
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