text, regular expressions

It's not explicitly about XML, and it's pretty far from our day-to-day 
angle-bracket discussions, but my fellow editor Andy Oram has written an 
interesting piece called "Marshall McLuhan vs. Marshalling Regular 
Expressions":

http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//network/2002/07/08/platform.html

The discussion of text as a medium seems pretty relevant to recent 
discussion here.

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue