From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-30 17:27:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:27:00 -0600 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:26:58 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nature of XML References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.77.160 X-Trace: sv3-c5denizamLChRQR8X8p9T5Ljdcck1Gbd2pMDMMS/kDgdimfxjHsfjF/YcnFICQWa6q1y+hgAsyGMJio!Jq0zUa+RFLIXaYPhjkFNRsSfVZrHd+J3Pw8y57tKC1TqdXqC+3HaC30iKo98zw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5132 Date: 2004-01-30T20:26:58-05:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Marius Amado Alves wrote: > : Programming languages have semantics. XML does not. Simple, no? > > If an IDREF attribute implies that an attribute value must > refer to an element with the corresponding id, is that syntax? Guys, try not to get carried away! In the post that started this unending thread I said: "I don't know if you consider SQL, XML, and HTML as a programming languages, but recently I have written a lot of all three." Should I have said I don't know ... and I don't care. ;-) I consider writing SQL and HTML as part of a database interface program as programming. The fact that the SQL and HTML may be in quotes inside an Ada subprogram is not really relevant. (They count as non-comment source lines of code.) On the other hand, if I am creating a static web page in HTML I don't consider that activity to be programming. If you have a different definition you use, fine. -- Robert I. Eachus "The war on terror is a different kind of war, waged capture by capture, cell by cell, and victory by victory. Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty." -- George W. Bush