Re: [xml-dev] Terminology (was: RFC for XML Object Parsing)

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> That and the crazily-named DOM function 'get elements by tagname", as if
> there were tags with names other than start, end, and, possibly, empty.
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I believe the W3C has a tag whose name is TAG.

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Which is just to demonstrate that different people can use a word to mean different things, and indeed the same person can use a word to mean different things depending on the conversation they are having at the time.

Michael Kay
Saxonica