Re: [xml-dev] Essentials (was RE: [xml-dev] heritage (was Re: [xml-dev] SGML on the

Mike Champion scripsit:

> So, is "XML" essentially a markup language, and thing like LMNL just
> minor variants even though they don't parse into labeled trees, or is
> "XML" essentially a data model with the angle brackets simply the
> canonical syntax?

Yes.

Czech is essentially Slovak as spoken by a German.
Slovak is essentially Czech as spoken by a Hungarian.

See http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html for a lot more of these.

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