• From: Thomas Passin <list1@t...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:57:18 -0600

On 8/18/2017 4:26 PM, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:

Agreed, Peter, but then Michael's assertion would amount to "XML is
designed to represent XML data". The point is whether or not
statements about the "purpose" of XML can really be upheld.

"Documents": mixed text and markup, generally with emphasis on the
importance of the text.

Unless the purpose is broadened to: tree-structured information.

Don't be stingy... XML can represent graphs too.

TomP

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