XML (fwd)

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

mwilson at the-wire.com (Mel Wilson) wrote previously:
|   And there isn't much to XML.  There's a first line of
|version information... Then there's
|the XML object, of the form
|        <bracket metadata> contents </bracket>
|Add a shortcut <bracket metatdata />

Add entity escaping
Add namespace declarations
Add namespace modified tags
Add namespace modified attributes
Add CDATA sections
Add Processing Instructions
Add Character entities
Add Numeric entities
Add DTD declarations
Add infoset modification
Add validation against DTDs
Add comments
Add whitespace normalization
Add specification of ignorable and non-ignorable whitespace

... and then you're almost there.

What could be easier?

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