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> XML files most certainly are plain text XML *can* be interpreted as plain text, or it can be interpreted as something *other* than plain text (i.e. XML). This ambiguity exists for any other plain-text-based markup format, such as RTF, Postscript, ... Perhaps we need some new terminology here. It might be helpful to describe an XML file as a "plain-text-markup file" (PTM, for acronym lovers), but reserve the term "plain text file" for files that contain text with no markup. Note that the terms being defined are "xxx file", not simply "plain text". Thus, John can continue to say that XML is plain text, but in some contexts that wouldn't be as useful as saying "XML files are plain-text-markup files". Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
