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Re: 15 elementary truths about XML

• From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:21:44 -0400

Costello, Roger L. scripsit:

> 11. An XML processor is an XML application. 

Technically, no; in the sense of the XML recommendation, an application
is a program that makes use of an XML processor.

> 15. Thus, an XML processor interprets the byte as representing the
> character 1, and an XML Schema validator interprets the byte as
> representing the Boolean value "true."

Yes, indeed.  And I interpret your email as a sequence of obvious facts,
my three-year-old grandson interprets it as something he can't read yet,
and my cat interprets it as Not-Food.

-- 
How comes city and country to be filled with drones         John Cowan
and rogues, our highways with hackers, and all          cowan@ccil.org
places with sloth and wickedness?           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
                --W. Blith, Eng. Improver Improved, 1652

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  • 15 elementary truths about XML
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>