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• Subject: RE: The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a trap!
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 11:05:50 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <006e01c20818$812220d0$6800a8c0@seairthlaptop>

 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seairth Jacobs [mailto:seairth@s...] 
>
> Okay, maybe I am slow to see what's wrong here, but I don't 
> see what's wrong here.  I have questions about the security 
> solution presented, but isn't the problem itself legitimate?  
> If it isn't, would someone be kind enough to educate me why a 
> self-describing data file is not an easier target for data theft?

XML isn't self describing. It if were, the RDF, DAML and semantic
web initiatives could pack up and go home.

Bill de hÓra


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