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At 10:32 AM 2/27/2003 -0500, Mike Champion wrote: >- "XML" is more than just UnicodeWithAngleBrackets I must confess I get lost in these discussions, but these terms don't seem like the right ones. Does anybody really believe that XML is just UnicodeWithAngleBrackets, or is that hyperbole? For instance, does anyone really think it is an error for us to discuss an XML document using terms from the XML 1.0 specification such as elements, attributes, children, etc? These really do seem to strongly imply an interpretation of those characters into structures that can form a hierarchy. Here's a view that I might call the "Only Structure" view: XML, like any language, has a surface syntax and associated semantics. "Unicode With Angle Brackets" describes the surface syntax, and the BNF in the XML Recommendation tells how to parse this syntax and what structures it expresses. The labelled structures expressed by an XML document are the semantics of the document. Are there many people who feel the "Only Structure" view is an abuse of XML? Jonathan
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