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From: "Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV)" <brutzman () nps ! edu>
Date: 2022-08-16 13:55:39
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Thanks for interesting reference Roger.
With apologies to the Bard: there are more trees in heaven and earth than
are dreamt of in our philosophy.
* wikipedia Tree (disambiguation)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(disambiguation)
all the best, Don
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Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149
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From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 4:17 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Metaphors that the XML community uses
"An XML document is a tree."
Obviously an XML document is not a tree. I look out my window and I see a
bunch of (real) trees. XML documents don't look like those trees.
When we say that an XML document is a tree, we are using a metaphor. We are
relating one thing (an XML document) to another thing (tree), as a way to
help understand and describe the first thing (XML documents).
Mary Holstege wrote a paper on metaphors that we use with XML. Here is the
introduction in her paper:
Computer information and software are abstractions. We comprehend them
through the use of metaphors. Different metaphors lead us to understand our
information and our processing of it in different ways. They lead us to
focus on certain aspects of the experience over other aspects.
This paper examines some metaphors we use to talk about markup. Being
mindful of what our metaphors are telling us implicitly allows us to see
what we are missing.
See analyzed a bunch of XML documents - using XQuery and AWK - to identify
which metaphors are used.
https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol21/html/Holstege01/BalisageVol21-Hol
stege01.html
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class=MsoNormal>Thanks for interesting reference Roger.<o:p></o:p></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With apologies to the Bard: \
there are more trees in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our \
philosophy…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul \
style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph \
style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>wikipedia Tree \
(disambiguation)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph \
style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 \
lfo1'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(disambiguation)<o:p></o:p></li></ul><div><p \
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New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>all the best, \
Don<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Don \
Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code \
USW/Br \
brutzman@nps.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Watkins 270, MOVES \
Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA \
+1.831.656.2149<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>X3D graphics, virtual worlds, Navy \
robotics https://</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier \
New"'>faculty.nps.edu/brutzman<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p \
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid \
#E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Roger L \
Costello <costello@mitre.org> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 16, 2022 4:17 \
AM<br><b>To:</b> xml-dev@lists.xml.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [xml-dev] Metaphors that \
the XML community uses<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p \
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'>“An XML document is a tree.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Obviously an XML document is not a tree. I \
look out my window and I see a bunch of (real) trees. XML documents don’t look \
like those trees.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'>When we say that an XML document is a tree, we are using a \
metaphor. We are relating one thing (an XML document) to another thing (tree), as a \
way to help understand and describe the first thing (XML documents). \
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'>Mary Holstege wrote a paper on metaphors that we use with XML. \
Here is the introduction in her paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
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style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Computer \
information and software are abstractions. We comprehend them through the use of \
metaphors. Different metaphors lead us to understand our information and our \
processing of it in different ways. They lead us to focus on certain aspects of the \
experience over other aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
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initial;word-spacing:0px' id=d470969e15><span \
style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>This paper \
examines some metaphors we use to talk about markup. Being mindful of what our \
metaphors are telling us implicitly allows us to see what we are \
missing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:black'>See analyzed a bunch of XML documents – using XQuery and \
AWK – to identify which metaphors are used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p \
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