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

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 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.

Because it hasn't. Why is it so hard to understand the difference
between syntax and semantics?

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