Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[Thomas Zander]

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On Monday 22 December 2003 15:12, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > If you say that then I must conclude you fail to appreciate what XML was
> > created for. The whole point of XML based files is to abstract this kind
> > of functionality from lots of different domains into a generic one.
>
> No, that's the one thing that XML explicitly does not do. The whole
> point of XML is that it doesn't do *anything* with "functionality"
> (semantics): it is pure syntax.

Why is it so hard to understand that XML has achieved more then just being a 
syntax.
I repeat: you fail to appreciate what XML was created for. Please take a look 
at the huge amount of XML tools that are out there to see what they can do. 
It will probably lead you to the conclusion that the simpleness of XML is its 
power in that it makes loose data structured data.  And that structured data 
can be manipulated.

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Thomas Zander
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