RE: [xml-dev] The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a trap!

[Bill de h'Ora]

 >XML isn't self describing. It if were, the RDF, DAML and semantic
 >web initiatives could pack up and go home.

Agreed. With apologies to Claude Debussy, markup is the stuff
between the tags.

If anything, XML markup has a habit of becoming a form
of unintentional steganography. The interesting stuff
has a way of ending up in #PCDATA. Invisible unless you
know where to look.

Sigh,

Sean