Re: [xml-dev] Re: A seemingly odd question: What is XML?

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, W. E. Perry <wperry@fiduciary.com> wrote:

Hey, welcome back, Walter!  I hope your troubles are over.

Each of these is, at best, a style of composition. The end product in each
case is a document, from which the manner of its composition cannot be
discerned.

Well, *usually* cannot be discerned.  Philologists and palaeographers do manage to discern such things in favorable cases.

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