Re: [xml-dev] Syntax + object model

[Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@eng.sun.com>]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:

> Maybe 5 years to late, but I never really understood the argument about why
> a standardized syntax is better than a standardized object model. It sounds
> right, but I can't explain why.

There are still people using markup languages to do just that: mark up
text. Documents exist chiefly as a stream of text, not as objects. In most
books, the order in which you read the paragraphs is important.

// Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@sun.com>