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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files'
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tomas |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files' |
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Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:54:53 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:38:16PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:30:20 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > [XML inexact patching]
> >
> > In fact, I do think it's possible. But to be really useful [...]
> For XML the equivalence is well defined. Two XML documents are
> equivalent if and only if they parse to the same tree.
That's formally correct. But I was babbling about `useful´ (which is
a bit unfair, because it's fuzzy and I can take it to mean anything
after the fact ;-) I was trying to express my observation that XML
the data description language (as opposed to the text markup language)
is often used in instances where wildly different-looking representations
mean the same thing. This is not a problem per se (this happens with
C as well ;-), but the tools which mangle those XML files have a sick
tendency to output wildly different forms (as opposed, for example,
to a programmer working on a C file: if the order of some declarations
doesn't matter she won't touch that without a good reason, and then
it is transporting some semantics of its own).
Ugh. I don't know whether I've brought across my point.
Regards
-- tomás
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Robert Widhopf-Fenk, 2005/04/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Josh England, 2005/04/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Robert Widhopf-Fenk, 2005/04/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Andrew Suffield, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Cameron Patrick, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files',
tomas <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', David Allouche, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Robin Farine, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Andrew Suffield, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Josh England, 2005/04/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Tom Lord, 2005/04/06