• To: Nicolas LEHUEN <nicolas.lehuen@u...>
• Subject: RE: SV: SV: XML=WAP? And DOA?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 15 Jan 2002 13:22:45 -0500
• Cc: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>, "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
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On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 11:51, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
> Maybe what we try to say is that from a programmatical point of view, there
> is no added information in a format where the meta-data is embedded into the
> data, compared to a format where meta-data is expressed in a header and pure
> data follows. 

Not true.  XML's embedded markup permits the creation of arbitrarily
labeled hierarchies.  It's rather difficult to connect headers to such
things - CSV column headers only work with columns.  Markup structures
introduce the possibility of a very different kind of structural
metadata.

(And that is, I think, why XML is a much more interesting topic of
discussion than CSV.)

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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