RE: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Michael Ludwig' <>, 'XML Developers List' <>
Date
2009-08-07T21:22:36Z
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<52E03B597AEE48A28C23B27ACC4EA0B6@Sealion>
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RE: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML
> On the other hand, giving the novice a reference to SGML is 
> not very likely to help much in shaping his view of what the 
> article is dealing with. So I'd add Ken Holman's definition 
> of XML as a "labeled hierarchy".

Again, that's an abstraction of XML, a way of looking at XML. It's not what
XML is. XML is what the spec says it is.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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