why it is called a grove

Subject: why it is called a grove
From: "Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" <roconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:25:21 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Frank A. Christoph wrote:

> Well, this is a silly thing to argue about, but, though there is undoubtedly
> something to what you say, it does not sit well with the fact that the
> non-technical meaning of "grove" is essentially a collection of trees, nor
> that the term "tree" is used in the standard to refer to something
> substantially more specific than "any rooted hierarchical data structure."
> Besides, "grove" is a common enough word that it would be a poor choice to
> name something so concrete and specific.

The fact that a grove could contain a collection of disjoint content trees
is why it is called a grove.

See Note 453 of the HyTime Standard.
<URL:http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg8/docs/n1920/html/clause-A.4.1.html#clause-A.4.1.5>
 
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Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
    <URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''


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