Re: which class of programming languages, XML Schema language belongs
Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]>
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for the explanation.
That's helpful.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:18 PM Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I would say that XSD is indeed a "formal computer language", but not
> a "programming language"; I don't think you can describe something as a
> programming language unless it is Turing-complete.
>
> I don't know of any universally accepted categorisation scheme for formal
> computer languages, and without such a scheme you can't say where a
> particular language fits; but it's certainly reasonable to describe XSD as
> a constraint specification language or as a data definition language (if
> indeed those two categories are distinct).
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi