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Re: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Michael Ludwig<milu71@gmx.de> wrote:


> On the other hand, giving the novice a reference to SGML is not very
> likely to help much in shaping his view of what the article is dealing
> with. So I'd add Ken Holman's definition of XML as a "labeled
> hierarchy". Labels and hierarchies are rather well-known concepts.


An XML document is a labeled hierarchy, but I wouldn't agree that XML
itself is a labeled hierarchy.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@ibiblio.org


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