• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: Norman Gray <norman.gray@g...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:07:13 +0000

> 
> In a computing context, I've always taken 'semantics' to refer to everything 'above' the level of 'syntax', in a cheerfully hand-waving way.
> 

Indeed, one the problems here is that the word has been used by computer scientists in a way that's completely different from its use in linguistics - and in the XML community, people are as likely to be linguists (linguisticists?) as computer scientists.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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