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RE: The XML 500 word Challenge

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• Subject: RE: The XML 500 word Challenge
• From: "Gerben Rampaart \(Casnet Brussel\)" <Gerben@C...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:19:53 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <000801c27e92$38f80ae0$2001a8c0@bryans>

XML is ?

How about:

'ASCII Database'.

2 words ... beat that ... 

Gerben.


-----Original Message-----
From: bryan [mailto:bry@i...]
Sent: 28 October 2002 15:57
To: AndrewWatt2000@a...
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  The XML 500 word Challenge



I've given this definition before, in another context, it is one I still
very much stand-by especially when I am overwhelmed from a day of
reading definitions:

"XML is a fish, that flies on both legs, it has wonderous and
fantastical
powers, the provenance of which no one is certain."




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