Steven Pemberton in Invisible XML
- “What is XML apart from a description of a parse tree for some format (with some special treatment for text nodes)?”
- “There is no reason why XML documents have to be written in an explicit XML format [syntax] per se. Anything that can be parsed can be perceived as XML, since parsing is very easy, and parse-trees are really just XML documents in different clothing.”
Lessons Learned
- We could use a non-angle-bracket syntax
- We just want an XML infoset, right?