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At 1:34 PM -0400 5/7/02, John Cowan wrote: >Actually, the document contains characters, not strings. Strings are >an abstraction you layer on the document, just like integers, dates, and >floats. > I won't argue. If you prefer, go back to what I wrote previously and replace all occurrences of "string" with "finite sequences of characters". I don't think that significantly affects my arguments. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/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.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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