• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Robert Koberg'" <rob@k...>,"'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@i...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:20:43 +0100

> 
> So, why define tags the way the wikipedia article (or the w3) does?  
> Why define them at all?
> 

The article has to be true to the XML specification.

Languages like XSLT and XPath see an abstraction of an XML document, not the
XML document itself. It might be nice if the XML specification defined that
abstraction, but it doesn't, and a Wikipedia article can't pretend that it
does.

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: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
  • Re: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>