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To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:39:23PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
>>swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) writes:
>>
>>>XML and HTML are both languages in which you may tell the computer what
>>>to do.
>>
>>XML is a syntax, not a language.
> 
> http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000581.htm

That was a very satisfying read.  Thank you for the link.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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