• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 20:19:52 +0000

Excellent message from John Cowan - thanks John!  /Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: cowan@c... [mailto:cowan@c...] 
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 3:49 PM
To: Costello, Roger L.
Subject: Re:  Word of the day: self-delimited

> I believe that all XML texts are self-delimited. Yes?

No, because given a concatenated sequence of documents, comments and PIs
outside the document element could belong with either the preceding
document element or the following one.

(Feel free to forward this to xml-dev.)

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@c...
Principles.  You can't say A is made of B or vice versa.
All mass is interaction.  --Richard Feynman

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  • Word of the day: self-delimited
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>