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RE: Wikipedia on XML

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: 'Jim Tivy' <jimt@bluestream.com>, Tim.Bray@S...,'Dave Pawson' <davep@d...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:20:27 +0100

> People say the text <a/> *is* XML but more precisely it *is* 
> a "document"
> that comples with the "a" markup language which in turn 
> complies with the rules of XML.

There may be millions of markup languages that allow <a/> as a document, or
there may be none. It doesn't matter: <a/> is a well-formed XML document
regardless. I think this stuff about XML being used to define other markup
languages is a very confusing way of explaining things to newcomers. The
first thing to get across is that <a/> is (a document allowed by the rules
of) XML.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

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