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Re: Xml is _not_ selfdescribing


self describing poems
At 02:52 PM 1/15/2002 +0100, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I think that it is fair to conclude now, that XML is _not_ any more 
>selfdescribing than e.g. CSV files.
>
>Sometimes I see that we move very close to becoming guilty of "Xtreme 
>Marketing Language (XML)".

You think this has meaning? Romantics!
Mere structure's the goal of our antics.
Though this poem be pallid,
It's well-formed and valid -
We do not define the semantics!

Jonathan


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