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Subject: RE: Is XML a Language? (was RE: [xsl] XSLT Architecture: Next Step)
From: "bryan" <bry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:01:09 +0200



>> I am sorry Bill, but XML is not a language but a meta 
>> language.

>I thought a meta language was a kind of language.

Wel if one gets abstract enough just about everything is a language. 

If a meta language has to possess all the normally defined qualities of
a 'language' whatever these are, then yes a 'meta-language' is a
language.




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