Philippe Verdy scripsit: > XML files are definitely NOT plain text (if this was the case, then it would > be forbidden to interpret "<" as a special markup character instead of the > standard Unicode base character with its associated glyph)...
You might as well say that C code is not plain text because it too is subject to special canons of interpretation. But both XML/HTML/SGML and the various programming languages are plain text: they are written with plain-text editors, manipulated with plain-text tools, and can be rendered with plain-text renderers. The fact that other things can be done with them is neither here nor there. -- "In my last lifetime, John Cowan I believed in reincarnation; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in this lifetime, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't." --Thiagi http://www.reutershealth.com
