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Date:      Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:58:43 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: languages
Message-ID:  <xzpn0l5ql8s.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030209184658.GA19887@papagena.rockefeller.edu> (Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:46:58 -0500")
References:  <20030209181722.GA19704@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <200302091826.h19IQBaX035066@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20030209184658.GA19887@papagena.rockefeller.edu>

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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> > All right, show me where in the XML 1.0 specification the
> > interpretation of the following snippet of XML described:
> Presumably in some DTD somewhere?  That's possible with XML  (hence
> "extensible")

DTDs specify a grammar, not an interpretation.

The ISO C standard specifies the syntax, grammar and semantics of C.
The XML specification however only specifies a syntax, and a mechanism
for describing a grammar using that syntax.  It says nothing about
semantics.

> The newspeak words in Burgess's "A clockwork orange" aren't in fact
> explained anywhere

Don't you mean George Orwell's _1984_?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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