Re: [xml-dev] The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world

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Dan Brickley <>
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Roger L Costello <>
Date
2022-05-30T21:17:58Z
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Re: [xml-dev] The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world


On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 14:56, Roger L Costello <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Folks,

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote:

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

XML is a language.

What are the limits of XML?

Would you provide an example of something that cannot be expressed in XML but can be expressed in some other data language, please?

You cannot truthfully express “This document is not wellformed XML” in XML, AFAIK

Dan




/Roger

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