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On 11/14/13 1:17 PM, John Cowan wrote: Yep. That's the way it always is, with or without XML and assorted other standards.On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Timothy W. Cook <tim@m... <mailto:tim@m...>> wrote: > Your XML file has no semantic context. Therefore they are free to interpret it as they wish, not necessarily how you meant it. No XML file has semantic content. Indeed, semantics (or, if you prefer, pragmatics — as far as I am concerned, it is a distinction without a difference) is the effect a message has on the recipient, and has nothing to do with the sender's intentions. Senders propose, recipients dispose. (I didn't come up with that, but I'm not sure who did.) Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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