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• Subject: Re: SV: SV: XML=WAP? And DOA?
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:09:05 -0500
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:41 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> No, that misses point completely. The point is not whether XML *can*
> be as opaque as anything else. It whether XML *is* as opaque as
> anything else.

I think you are confusing XML with XMl data and XML practise.

You are correct that in many applications, tag names/attributes add 
value to the data. That has nothing to do with XML *itself*... just 
the way people use it.

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