• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Michael Ludwig'" <milu71@g...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:22:36 +0100

> On the other hand, giving the novice a reference to SGML is 
> not very likely to help much in shaping his view of what the 
> article is dealing with. So I'd add Ken Holman's definition 
> of XML as a "labeled hierarchy".

Again, that's an abstraction of XML, a way of looking at XML. It's not what
XML is. XML is what the spec says it is.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

• References:
  • Re: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@S...>
  • Re: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: Michael Ludwig <milu71@g...>