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Re: What is "semantic markup"?

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• Subject: Re: What is "semantic markup"?
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 30 Oct 2002 11:59:50 +0100
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On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:56, Daniel Dui wrote:

> So different consumers of a document can associate it with different
> semantics. This is sometime OK, but often not desirable and nothing can
> be done to ensure that they don't. Or can it?

I would even say that this is one of the main strengths of XML,
sometimes called "loose coupling" or "late binding" :) ...

Eric
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