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At 2:40 PM +0100 1/14/02, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote:
>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?
>
No, because nobody would actually do that. What you've demonstrated
isn't even XML. (You can't begin an XML name with a number.) Even if
you fixed that, this is not how XML is written in practice. Names are
not chosen randomly. They have meaning which can be leveraged.
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