Tim Cook wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:29 +0100, Adam Flinton wrote: > > >> ummmmmm.......where to even start....oh yes how about... >> > > You left out the fact that XML cannot semantically reproduce an object > model. > >
XML is a form of text markup. It is more analogous to the English language and can be used to express anything from a Shakespearian sonnet to a death sentence to this mail. Any of them could be marked up in XHTML which is a dialect of XML. >> Now wrt ADL..... >> > > ADL does semantically describe the AOM. > No reason why XML could not. It can suffice for anything from a webform (e.g. XForms) to a vector graphic (e.g. SVG) to an object model to formatted text (e.g. XHTML) to an office file (e.g. ODF or OOXML) to a process such as XSLT. Adam ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************
