• To: "Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI" <jens.jakob.andersen@p...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Xml is _not_ selfdescribing
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@s...>
• Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:27:44 -0500
• In-reply-to: <E6CDEF4DFA31524D83641C6B9550AF77013FE9D2@e...>

At 02:52 PM 1/15/2002 +0100, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I think that it is fair to conclude now, that XML is _not_ any more 
>selfdescribing than e.g. CSV files.
>
>Sometimes I see that we move very close to becoming guilty of "Xtreme 
>Marketing Language (XML)".

You think this has meaning? Romantics!
Mere structure's the goal of our antics.
Though this poem be pallid,
It's well-formed and valid -
We do not define the semantics!

Jonathan

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