Modeling Flexible Document Structures with XML Schema: Rhetorical Objects and Rhetorical Metadata
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Hart-Davidson, William, Victoria Moore and Joshua Porter
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2003
Abstract:
With the adoption of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) on the rise, researchers in academia and industry are seeking to leverage the descriptive power of metadata to better understand the semantic structure of
information (e.g., see Berners-Lee, 1998). But most
interaction on the World Wide Web is what Geisler (2001)
calls “document-centered,” involving the exchange of
discourse a great deal larger and more complex than the
basic units of meaning that semantics deals effectively
with. As a result, the tools of semantics fall short of
providing adequate metadata schemes which capture the
most compelling features of effective discourse in any
medium: emotional and ethical appeals which work in
conjunction with appropriate logical and semantic
structures.
