...SWEET BLINDNESS
"Brian Heinrich" wrote > > Look, it's late and I want to go to bed, and I have *no* idea how to > explain this to you. > > The Euclidean figure you used is axiomatic; it is, therefore, very > different from, say, the XHTML 1.0 standard, which is not based on any > axiom(s) but rather on a self-consistent DTD (document type definition). > Furthermore, given that XML is designed to be *extensible*, any XML > application cannot possibly be axiomatic, tho' I suppose SGML could be > said to be so. (Anybody able to give me a hand here or to clarify this?) > > The best I can do is ask you to look the terms up in a good dictionary. > I don't know Spanish, so the best I can do is give you French terms > that are roughly cognate with the distinction of which I'm thinking; > that should give you a place from which to begin, at least. > > The English 'axiom' comes from the Latin /axioma/; the French is /le > axiome/. 'Standard' is a bit trickier; in French, the terms I'm > thinking of are /la norme/, /le crit�re/; there are probably others that > I've missed. If that doesn't help, any Spanish terms that would be > something like 'etandarde' or 'estandarde' *may* point you in the right > direction, tho' they might also send you off on a tangent having to do > with military standards; I really don't know. > > Brian. > > -- > > > We sail tonight for Singapore | We're all as mad as hatters here > I've fallen for a tawny moor | Took off to the land of Nod > Drank with all the Chinamen | Walked the sewers of Paris > I danced along a colored wind | Dangled from a rope of sand > You must say goodbye to me > -- Tom Waits, 'Singapore' >
