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- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a trap!
- From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:08:22 +0100
- In-reply-to: <1022857411.23164.ezmlm@lists.xml.org>
[Bill de h'Ora]
>XML isn't self describing. It if were, the RDF, DAML and semantic
>web initiatives could pack up and go home.
Agreed. With apologies to Claude Debussy, markup is the stuff
between the tags.
If anything, XML markup has a habit of becoming a form
of unintentional steganography. The interesting stuff
has a way of ending up in #PCDATA. Invisible unless you
know where to look.
Sigh,
Sean
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