• From: keshlam@u...
• Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:21:47 -0400

>Because text files should be transmissible as text; XML is a format for
>marked up text.

XML can also be viewed/used as a text-based representation of data. In fact, I
think that's its primary definition, with text markup being a single application
thereof.

(I have no opinion on the MIME-type issue as yet.)

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