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Subject:    Re: [xml-dev] Four fine text-based data formats ... liberate yourself from one (silo) data format
From:       Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-03-24 19:47:41
Message-ID: CALfs7+xNJstBsR9yfEUaihzG0uLDR3opTZgbcWMGhK3Tq61dKA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> Thanks Tim, Shaun, and Ihe for your excellent comments.
> 
> Below I try to address some of your comments.
> 
> Ihe wrote:
> 
> If you wanted all such software programs to behave
> uniformly with respect to the same syntax (please tell
> me why you wouldn't) what do you think you'd end up with.
> 
> If I wanted every software program to behave uniformly upon receiving, say, some \
> geolocation data (and be agnostic to its data format), then I would do this: 
> I would have a layer that converts the particular data format
> into an abstract representation (perhaps as a list of values or
> perhaps as a tree data structure) and then I would have a software
> module (that is distributed to everyone) to process the geolocation
> data.
> 
> It's the fact that everyone is using the same software module that ensures common \
> semantic interpretation. Common semantic interpretation is not achieved via a \
> common syntax. 

So how does that differ from AN Other schema language/vocabulary and
AN Other schema parser to process it governed by  AN Other set of
standards?

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