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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch? |
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Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:50:14 +0000 |
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2003 15:12, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > If you say that then I must conclude you fail to appreciate what XML was
> > > created for. The whole point of XML based files is to abstract this kind
> > > of functionality from lots of different domains into a generic one.
> >
> > No, that's the one thing that XML explicitly does not do. The whole
> > point of XML is that it doesn't do *anything* with "functionality"
> > (semantics): it is pure syntax.
>
> Why is it so hard to understand that XML has achieved more then just being a
> syntax.
Because it hasn't. Why is it so hard to understand the difference
between syntax and semantics?
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- [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, michael josenhans, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Tom Lord, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Robert Collins, 2003/12/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, michael josenhans, 2003/12/21
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?,
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, michael josenhans, 2003/12/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Charles Duffy, 2003/12/22
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Tom Lord, 2003/12/21
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, michael josenhans, 2003/12/21
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/19