Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment

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Uche Ogbuji <>
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"Timothy W. Cook" <>
Date
2013-11-14T15:08:45Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Timothy W. Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
I must agree with Hans-Juergen.

I have no idea what kind of 'junk' gets passed around in the
publishing world.  But XML DOES provide the ability to be very
specific about data.  Maybe it is too forgiving and allows too much
optionality.

I'm not really interested in whether or not XML allows mathematical precision about data. To be honest, I haven't the foggiest idea what that means anyway.

More usefully, can you tell me exactly how 

<org.w3.svg>

is less able to communicate data specifically than


?


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