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Re: Diversity (was RE: The lists I monitor)
- From: Richard Lanyon <rgl@decisionsoft.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:40:19 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> At 01:40 PM 5/8/01 +0200, Anderson, John wrote:
> >Wasn't the whole point of XML to remove diversity so we could all join
> >hands and dance together as one big happy web enabled platform independent
> >family?
> My usual answer is that XML 1.0 removed syntactic diversity
And I thought that XML enabled self-describing diversity. Anyone else?
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