Even in a semantic web, a common terminology dictionary is required to know the meaning. A namespace may be used to group elements using common dictionary. XML document may include schema such as DTD but it's just provides structural constraints and not the semantical meaning.
H.Ozawa 2009/8/26 Gregg Wonderly <[email protected]>: > > > Michael Poulin wrote: >> Anyway, I, personally, never ever considered XML as a data structure, it >> was always about semantics to me. At the same time, Java serialization >> is a Java object state snapshot, i.e. data structure. To use this data >> on the receiver side, we need to have a shared interface/class >> definition. This leads to programming coupling. > > No, it leads to structured understanding. The meaning of the data, at some > point is always understood, or you can't "use" it. > > What you are supposing, I think, is that somehow, a piece of software, is > not a > piece of data that can be consumed and used. > > XML schema, XSL and other conversions are equivalent, see below... >
