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> I was talking about the "theoretical concept of > interoperability" simply because the XML world > hasn't seen as much of it in practice as we talk > about in theory. At the (well-formed) XML parser level, interoperability is pretty good (certainly *far* better than interoperability between HTML parsers, even now). The problems with interoperability are typically above the purely syntactic level. One thing to remember: the 80/20 rule *always* applies. No matter how trivial the standard, people are tempted to cut corners... and it is in these corners that interoperability issue crop up. Interoperability comes from standards conformance. People that do not implement the standard should not claim to do so, and should not expect to be fully interopable with people that do.
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