Peter Constable scripsit: > 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".
Fair enough, though technically even plain-text files typically mark either line ends or paragraph breaks with markup (= control) characters. -- My corporate data's a mess! John Cowan It's all semi-structured, no less. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan But I'll be carefree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using XSLT http://www.reutershealth.com In an XML DBMS.
