RE: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Michael Ludwig' <>, 'XML Developers List' <>
Date
2009-08-07T23:42:48Z
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<D0D3FF79BF254BA39147E31C9A89526A@Sealion>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML
> With the exception of "<!CDATA[" (which, just like the 
> comment delimiters, looks suspiciously DTD-ish to me), these 
> words can't be easily pronounced.

Well, I've only dabbled in linguistics in a very amateurish way, but I've
never seen anyone maintain that an essential property of a language is that
its words must be pronouncable. (Pronouncable by whom?)

Regards,

Michael Kay
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