Fwd: RE: [humanmarkup] RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Base Schema-artifact

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: Fwd: RE: [humanmarkup] RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Base

Hi All,

I just got out of a long teleconference call and now I'm out the door, but I got this from Phil, looked at it, saw that it is a uml class diagram of a way to see xml working as a grammar, and if you replace the concept of verb class with a set of collections of methods that the nouns can use, you will get a data model that very closely approximates what I was envisioning during our last meeting.

What Len has said remains true, xml is a collection of nouns for the most part in the sense that signal is a name for a very verb-like action--creating an interruption that can be codified to transmit information, but the methods available to use on or with the nouns create programs, and I think having an underlying structure to the language that supports multiple kinds of grammars, i.e. cultural grammar, VR-H-Anim behavior grammar,etc.  WITHOUT expliciting writing it into the language per se, is a good idea.

Such as what we have said about artifact having as one of its attributes the ability to convey meaning, if not explicit information.

Ciao,

Rex

> From: "Rossomando, Philip"
> <Philip.Rossomando@unisys.com>
> To: "'Rex Brooks'" <rexb@starbourne.com>
> Subject: RE: [humanmarkup] RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Base
> Schema-artifact
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:37:36 -0400
> X-Rcpt-To: <rexb@starbourne.com>
> X-DPOP: DPOP Version 2.4a
> Status: U
> Rex:
>  
> I sent you a model of what I had done several days
> ago.
> I couldn't post to the HumanMarkup List Server. I
> don't
> have permission. As I read more about schemas I
> see
> that they really represent objects. Now one thing I
> was
> wondering is are you familiar with rule based
> expert
> systems? In these contexts, procedural
> knowledge
> is expressed as objects. Thus, I would think that
> we
> could define a rule as an XML object with a Left and
> a
> right half. One could then use in inference engine
> to
> execute them.
>  
>  
>  
> Phil
>  
> PS. Rex what exactly are you looking for from me? I
> am
> not sure I am on the right track with what you are
> expecting.
> >  
>

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