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RE: power uses of XML vs. simple uses of XML

• From: Matt Sergeant <matt@s...>
• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:03:48 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

> > I think you're talking about two different things though. Your
> > implementation of detecting the document type by top level tag is only
> > valid if the entire document gets embedded.
> 
> Not really:
> 
> I can use
> 
>    <graphic type="svg">
>      ...
>    </graphic>
> 
> just as well as
> 
>    <svg:blah>
>    </svg:blah>
> 
> I'd argue that the former is cleaner overall.

And yet violates the schema that you took the <graphic> tag from.

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