Tom Hester wrote:
> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
>> Tom Hester <thester_at_metadata.com> writes:
>>
>>> But, it seems to me that all of this is beside the point. XML is an
>>> interface language, not a data language. There is no data model for
>>> XML because it does not describe data (facts about the real world).
>>> Rather it describes how to pass text between processes.
>>
>>
>>
>> as previously mentioned it started out as GML ... generalized
>> markup language ...
>
>
> Yeah, XML has two parents--hence the X and ML. It's other parent is X,
> the old W3C standard modeling language. An early problem with XML was
> its trying to serve both task masters.
To mix a metaphor...
Received on Wed Dec 08 2004 - 18:48:05 CST
