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Re: Xml is _not_ self describing


describing person
At 10:20 AM -0500 1/17/02, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

>How about
>
>     person [
>        first-name [Gavin]
>        last-name [Nicol]
>     ]
>

That looks like S-expressions again, just with square brackets 
instead of braces

>or perhaps
>
>    \begin{person}
>        \first-name{Gavin}
>        \last-name{Nicol}
>    \end{person}
>

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Looking at it, there do not seem 
to be any end-tags for first-name or last-name. If that's what you 
meant, then you've reinvented SGML's omitted end-tag syntax, and we 
all know how well that worked. :-) Oh, now I get it. You have \begin 
and a \end for the simple text elements and \begin and \end for 
elements that have children. That might work.
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