Yet thereâs a long list of incidences of unadulterated government abuse and malpractice for a host of purposes other than fighting terrorism. In other words, the threat this Act, and these particular provisions pose to the basic Constitutional rights of American citizens is not hypothetical, but documented fact. Consider what we know:
Dictionary entry overview: What does nil mean? â¢ NIL (noun) The noun NIL has 1 sense: 1. a quantity of no importance Familiarity information: NIL used as a noun is very rare.
add a comment |. up vote 5 down vote. Maybe i:nil actually means xsi:nil, this means that the FirstName element is empty, i.e. does not have any content -- not even  . It refers to the nillable property in XML Schema.share | improve this answer.ost likely, it is defined as the same thing that xsi is usually defined as: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance â John Saunders Jan 15 '13 at 2:18. add a comment |. up vote 2 down vote. nil is an attribute, defined in the i namespace.