blackbox wrote:
> "Brian Heinrich"
>
>>Umm . . . wouldn't the more appropriate question be: What on God's good
>>green earth does Euclidean geometry have to do with with HTML or CSS?
>>
>
>
> I have understood, you call standards to html, css, xhtml, xml, etc.
>
> that drawing, you said is Euclidean geometry, is a standard, if you dont
> know. And if you know is Euclidean geometry, then you know how many years
> it has.
>
> so, i ask you again. how many years of life it will have HTML CSS XHTML
> DHTML XML?
>
>
> this time i did use google
>
>
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 critère/; 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.
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