• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 11:20:41 +0000

Consider three English sentences:

(a) There are tomatoes in the fridge.

(b) Go to the shop and buy more tomatoes.

(c) How many tomatoes are there in the fridge?

English is flexible: A sentence can provide information, give instructions, or ask questions.

XML is equally flexible.

So what?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • Elements with explicit behavior versus elements that contain dataused to produce behavior
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
  • Re: Elements with explicit behavior versus elements thatcontain data used to produce behavior
    • From: Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@n...>