[ Summary ] 15 elementary truths about XML

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

Hi Folks,

Thank you very much for the outstanding feedback. It has been an excellent discussion.

I summarized our discussion:

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Toward a Set of Building Blocks about XML
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In ancient Greece a mathematician named Euclid wrote a book now famously known as Euclid's Elements. It summarized all that was known about geometry. It is a fascinating book. It starts with extremely simple concepts and from them it derives an incredibly rich body of knowledge.

The attempt here is to modestly proceed in a similar fashion: identify a set of extremely simple concepts (building blocks) about XML from which increasingly rich concepts may be rigorously derived.

More ... http://www.xfront.com/Elementary-Truths-about-XML.pdf

Comments welcome.

/Roger