Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

At 06:14 PM 10/24/98 -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> I can only speak for myself: XML and HTML share the property that it's
> difficult for an input filter to programmatically determine what part
> of the input should be considered essential to the meaning of the
> content and what part should not.
s/difficult/impossible/ for XML and SGML.  In principle, at a deep
level.  Anybody anywhere can invent a tag.

For HTML, at least the tags have (allegedly) known semantics. -Tim