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At 2:40 PM +0100 1/14/02, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote: >This is one of the hypes about XML, that I'd like to defuse. XML is >not any more self-describing than CSV files. E.g. > ><99874987kjhk> > <gnygngyasdada> > What is this? > </gnygngyasdada> ></99874987kjhk> > >Case proved? > No, because nobody would actually do that. What you've demonstrated isn't even XML. (You can't begin an XML name with a number.) Even if you fixed that, this is not how XML is written in practice. Names are not chosen randomly. They have meaning which can be leveraged. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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