XML: a licence for ill?


XML allows you to make up your own tags, and doesn't require a DTD... isn't that rather dangerous?

  • XML allows you to name elements freely
  • one man's <p> is another's <para> (or is it?)
  • the appearance of interchangeability may be worse than its absence

Namespaces provide a partial solution (but are incompatible with the use of a DTD)


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