RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Article: Emotions and Designing for Li fe

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Also, Wendell Piez's article on Sign Systems at 
Extreme Markup.  

http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme02/xslfo-pdf/2002/Piez01/EML2002Piez01.pdf

He explores XML Schemas as sign systems, which of 
course they are, and that is quite a bit different 
from what we are doing but it points out the 
overlap that can be confusing.  We tried to 
point this out in the phase 0 period to some: 
XML is a metalanguage for creating signs and 
so, it is already on the path to reducing 
miscommunication.  It is, however, a semanticless 
language, so unless one is already ontologically 
committed, it can create miscommunication.  Does 
everyone understand the difference because if they 
don't, then some presentations can come across as 
an attempt to reinvent XML and Schemas?  

Ask yourselves, what is the difference between a 
DOM engine and a semiote?  They are both sign 
processors.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]

Thanks, Len

I saved the article for later study. I'm hip deep in formatting 
documents the OASIS way.It's not bad, just
tedious to understand if you don't care to jump immediately to Word, 
which I'm trying to avoid, at least momentarily. Word also isn't bad, 
just indeciferable when one uses it make web pages--the code that is, 
which I don't edit in that toolset if I can ever possibly avoid it.