Re: [xml-dev] 15 elementary truths about XML

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Costello, Roger L. scripsit:

> 11. An XML processor is an XML application. 

Technically, no; in the sense of the XML recommendation, an application
is a program that makes use of an XML processor.

> 15. Thus, an XML processor interprets the byte as representing the
> character 1, and an XML Schema validator interprets the byte as
> representing the Boolean value "true."

Yes, indeed.  And I interpret your email as a sequence of obvious facts,
my three-year-old grandson interprets it as something he can't read yet,
and my cat interprets it as Not-Food.

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