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• From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: "Graham Hannington" <graham_hannington@fundi.com.au>
• Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:23:19 +0000

Graham Hannington writes:

> Terminology question: does one define an XML vocabulary, an XML grammar, 
> an XML language (".... Language language"), or something else?

Colour me old-fashioned, but I prefer the phrase "XML application",
echoing the original "SGML application", because _that_ was defined to
be specified by a syntax _and_ a semantics.

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