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At 01:21 PM 8/1/01, Jim Fuller wrote:
Interesting that these two facts are related: you can't use '&' freely in your XML precisely *because* XML is the antithesis of EDI ... to be more specific, XML is a (fairly) highly evolved application of the "markup language" paradigm, which insists on a clean separation of markup from content. I.e., in XML we always know what our markup delimiters are (and they're never spaces, commas or line breaks, which are pervasive in our content). (It's arguably an unfortunate historical artifact that one of the delimiters is '&' instead of something more obscure. But we need something both obscure -- not used for anything else -- and also on our keyboards. C'est la vie.)
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Re: [xsl] xslt and edi question
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Subject: Re: [xsl] xslt and edi question From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 14:23:50 -0400 |
At 01:21 PM 8/1/01, Jim Fuller wrote:
and thats because EDI represents ( at least to me ) the antithesis of what xml is as a pure file format, though i can use & in EDI without any *grumble*<![CDATA[]]> *grumble*................
Interesting that these two facts are related: you can't use '&' freely in your XML precisely *because* XML is the antithesis of EDI ... to be more specific, XML is a (fairly) highly evolved application of the "markup language" paradigm, which insists on a clean separation of markup from content. I.e., in XML we always know what our markup delimiters are (and they're never spaces, commas or line breaks, which are pervasive in our content). (It's arguably an unfortunate historical artifact that one of the delimiters is '&' instead of something more obscure. But we need something both obscure -- not used for anything else -- and also on our keyboards. C'est la vie.)
Oops, back to XSL-- Wendell
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