• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Jim Tivy'" <jimt@b...>,"'Dave Pawson'" <davep@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:46:19 +0100

ion
> 
> How about an upconversion spectrum like:
> 
> noise --> human readable ---> machine readable
> 
> Of course it does beg the question about what machine 
> readable means - do machines read - what does it mean to say 
> something is machine readable.

I think what is really happening is that external knowledge of the rules
governing the structure of the text is being translated into an internal
(in-band) representation of the structure at the instance level. No new
information is being created: it's just being made more digestible.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

• References:
  • Word of the day: upconversion
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • Fwd: Word of the day: upconversion
    • From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@g...>
  • Re: Fwd: Word of the day: upconversion
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
  • RE: Fwd: Word of the day: upconversion
    • From: "Jim Tivy" <jimt@b...>