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Well,
let's see. XML is a "standard", so we could start with that. Then it is pretty
much "generalized". And it's used for "markup". That just leaves the
"metalanguage". SGMML anyone?
-----Original Message----- Is XML a "language"? Or is it a meta-language?
If XML had been called From: AndrewWatt2000@a... [mailto:AndrewWatt2000@a...] Sent: 28 March 2001 09:55 To: simonstl@s...; xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: experts Extensible Markup Meta Language (XMML) we might have been on more accurate ground. But, peering more closely, is XML really extensible? If XML allows an essentially infinite number of element names in what way is it "extensible" in the way that it is often hyped to be? In practice, of course, there would have been major problems in defining *any* term which adequately and accurately represented what XML is to a wider audience.
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