A question on nomenclature

[Jeff Russell]

Different people are describing it different ways. An "application of XML"
would be generic enough. "Application" would be one step higher, and so also
technically correct. "Format" would describe a particular document or specific
DTD/schema. Grammar or syntax is what the XML spec describes. A vocabulary
might be the specific "proprietary" set of tags used in a given deocument, DTD,
or schema.

"Class" is a technical word from XSL and CSS.

Jeff Russell

|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
|Hunter, David
|Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:26 PM
|To: 'XML-dev'
|Subject: A question on nomenclature
|
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|A simple question.  What is that?
|
|My choices so far:
|-an "application of XML", or possibly just "application", although this
|would cause confusion with "application" as defined in the spec.
|-a "vocabulary" (the one I personally use, although I may change after this
|thread...)
|-a "grammar"
|
|Keep in mind I'm talking about the "structure" there, not the "instance" of
|that "structure".  (I want to describe the "class", not the "object".)  I
|have a feeling that there isn't a real consensus anywhere, and that
|different people are using different names.  (Are there any others?  Do
|people use "format", or something along those lines?  Or "class"?)
|
|It's not something that I would ever have to worry about when using XML in
|my applications, but if I were to, oh, I don't know, write a book about XML,
|I'd want to create as little confusion as possible, so would I be safe in
|calling the structure I created a "vocabulary"?  Do things get hairier if we
|get into formats documented in DTDs/Schemas, and documents with no DTD or
|Schema, or does the nomenclature stay the same?
|
|Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated.  Any documentation that I've
|missed which states emphatically "this is what you would call it" would be
|even more appreciated, but I don't think it's out there...
|
|David Hunter
|MobileQ
|david.hunter at mobileq.com
|http://www.MobileQ.com
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