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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Use of XML for config files
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
: database-like stuff, rather than a readable document containing
: prose, you're no longer talking about documents, so there is a bit more
: flexibility. 

Yes and no,  because "document" is a defined term in SGML/XML,
and this is what I was thinking of in this XML discussion.

Here is the (short) SGML definition:
4.96 document: A collection of information that is processed as a
unit. A document is classified as being af a particular document
type.

NOTE--In this International Standard, the term almost invariably
means (without loss of accuracy) an SGML document.

XML 1.0:
By construction, XML documents are conforming SGML documents.

[Definition: A data object is an XML document if it is well-formed,
as defined in this specification. A well-formed XML document may
in addition be valid if it meets certain further constraints.]

-- Georg