• From: "HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <mark_hughes@n...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:31:56 -0700

From: Anthony Abbott [mailto:anthony.abbott@j...]
>This must be a pretty basic question... 
>but can anyone please point me to a succint and up-to-date definiiton of
XML?

  XML is a hierarchical data structure of text strings, readable by humans
and
software, using angle brackets and ampersands as delimiters.  If you build a
protocol on top of that, it's your responsibility to make sure any other
participants share the same protocol.  Everything else is just a meaningless
personal sylistic fetish.

-- <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>

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