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To: "Mike Champion" <mc@xegesis.org>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: SV: SV: [xml-dev] XML=WAP? And DOA?
From: "Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI" <jens.jakob.andersen@post.dk>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:40:00 +0100
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Thread-topic: SV: [xml-dev] XML=WAP? And DOA?

Hi Mike

> >2. XML in itself is no more advanced than CSV.
> 
> I still disagree on that; hierarchical self-describing markup 
> IS a definite advance over CSV.

This is one of the hypes about XML, that I'd like to defuse. XML is not any more self-describing than CSV files. E.g.

<99874987kjhk>
	<gnygngyasdada>
		What is this?
	</gnygngyasdada>
</99874987kjhk>

Case proved?

JJ

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