• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Michael Ludwig'" <milu71@g...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 00:42:48 +0100

> With the exception of "<!CDATA[" (which, just like the 
> comment delimiters, looks suspiciously DTD-ish to me), these 
> words can't be easily pronounced.

Well, I've only dabbled in linguistics in a very amateurish way, but I've
never seen anyone maintain that an essential property of a language is that
its words must be pronouncable. (Pronouncable by whom?)

Regards,

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

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