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Re: [xml-dev] [Summary] XML is text-only ... why?
- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>
- To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:19:44 -0400
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> Why is an XML Document Pure Text?
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> XML was designed to be a human-readable language for marking up data
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-origin-goals>. Because XML
> documents are pure text you can use any text editor to create, edit,
> and read your data --- you can view the 23 in the above XML document.
>
Boy, this makes a lot of assumptions about encodings and languages and
fonts ...
Jonathan
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