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   Re: [xml-dev] Xml is _not_ self describing

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On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:04 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 10:20 AM -0500 1/17/02, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> >How about
> >
> >     person [
> >        first-name [Gavin]
> >        last-name [Nicol]
> >     ]
>
> That looks like S-expressions again, just with square brackets
> instead of braces

Flipped the position of the labels too. Some people deal with this 
better.

>
> >or perhaps
> >
> >    \begin{person}
> >        \first-name{Gavin}
> >        \last-name{Nicol}
> >    \end{person}
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. 

RTF or LaTeX (LaTeX looks kind of like this).

> If that's what you meant, then you've reinvented SGML's omitted
> end-tag syntax, and we all know how well that worked. :-) 

:-) I could write an SGML declaration for oth these sytaxes too...





 

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