Re: SV: SV: [xml-dev] XML=WAP? And DOA?

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:41 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> No, that misses point completely. The point is not whether XML *can*
> be as opaque as anything else. It whether XML *is* as opaque as
> anything else.

I think you are confusing XML with XMl data and XML practise.

You are correct that in many applications, tag names/attributes add 
value to the data. That has nothing to do with XML *itself*... just 
the way people use it.