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Re: [ Revision #2 ] 15 elementary truths about XML

• From: Chris Burdess <dog@bluezoo.org>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:03:23 +0000

Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> <snip>
> a. In the computer is a sequence of bytes
> 
> b. Programming language specific software interprets the bytes as characters and output a sequence of characters
> 
> c. An XML processor reads the sequence of characters, processes them, and outputs the results
> 
> d. An XML application reads the XML processor's output and interprets the characters as strings, Booleans, integers, and URLs.

Given that it's taken you several attempts now and a lot of hand-holding to comprehend what to everyone else on this mailing list is pretty much self-evident, do you think you're perhaps in the wrong line of work?

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