Charles wrote:
> I looked at XML again after reading all this discussion;
> now it looks to me like "just" a syntax for a metalanguage,
> without any actual content.
Exactly.
> It merely imposes a tree-structure
Actually an arbitrary graph, because attributes of type
ID allow you to label subtrees uniquely, and attributes of type
IDREF and IDREFS allow you to refer to them.
Unfortunately, not all XML processors detect such attributes.
> using what amount to circumfixes with attribute tags.
> The real value-added part is the DTD (?) which we ain't got.
Make one up!
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