"Chip" == Chip Salzenberg <chip(_at_)perlsupport(_dot_)com> writes:
Chip> I can only speak for myself: XML and HTML share the property
Chip> that it's difficult for an input filter to programmatically
Chip> determine what part of the input should be considered
Chip> essential to the meaning of the content and what part should
Chip> not.
I don't think that's fair, Chip. HTML is a specific representation,
XML is a meta-environment. It's not meaningful to describe a document
as being in XML. A document is encoded in accordence with a DTD, &
said DTD confirms to XML's rules.
The *huge* difference between XML & HTML to me is that you must
explicitly state, somewhere, exactly what is and isn't essential.
That's the whole point of the DTD.
--
Stephen
---
Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
