Re: [xml-dev] Terminology (was: RFC for XML Object Parsing)

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> That and the crazily-named DOM function 'get elements by tagname", as if
> there were tags with names other than start, end, and, possibly, empty.
> 

I believe the W3C has a tag whose name is TAG.

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Which is just to demonstrate that different people can use a word to mean different things, and indeed the same person can use a word to mean different things depending on the conversation they are having at the time.

Michael Kay
Saxonica