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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 02:06 pm, John Cowan wrote: > Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > XML itself doesn't do anything with graphs, even with ID/IDREF pairs, > > beyond simple validation of constraints. As such I have to disagree with > > your assertion that "Without ID's, XML can only serialize trees" and put > > it down to FUD. > > *in an application-independent way*. Of course you can define your own > mechanism, or use XLink. You can never, ever, serialize a graph in an application-independent way. Where did the graph come from in the first place? XML is data. Data without an application interpreting it is just a sequence of bits... and angle brackets don't change that.
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