> If you want to see the angle brackets as a vocabulary, that's
> fine with me. But I find that the look and feel is more like
> syntax. Both points of view could be argued for, maybe one
> with more ease than the other.
>
> One man's language, another man's syntax - or meta-language.
Surely syntax is just one part of language?
* The syntax says you are allowed to write <A>XYZ</A>.
* The semantics (dare I use the term?) says that when you do so, you have
uttered an element whose name is A and whose content is XYZ.
Regards,
Michael Kay
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