Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files'

[Robin Farine]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 16.08, David Allouche wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:54 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > 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.
>
> [...]
>
> > Ugh. I don't know whether I've brought across my point.
>
> More specifically, XML is so semantically poor as to be almost
> meaningless.

Which is true by definition, no? As it is for S-expressions, the 
sequences of alphanumeric characters starting with 'A', ...

> For example, the semantics of element ordering and whitespace (to
> a slightly lesser extent) are application-defined.

If the ANSI C standard would just define the _syntax_ of valid C 
documents, we would probably say that the meaning of things like 
*a++[8](&b) is compiler-dependent ...

Robin