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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:34 am, dehora wrote:
>> In the XML world, 'self describing' seems to mean, self-describing,
>> ie, XML data holds all the information needed to process and
>> understand it.
That's too big a leap. Self describing means XML documents say
*something* about the data they contain. It does not mean they say
*everything* about the data they contain. It certainly does mean they
hold "all the information needed to process and understand it."
Something may not be everything but it is not nothing either.
Something can be quite useful.
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