Re: xml and s-expression

doug wrote:

Hi,

I came across this web page titled "xml is not s-expression"
http://www.prescod.net/xml/sexprs.html

It's true that xml and s-expressions are not the same. XML is worse.

See http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/xml-essence/xml-essence.pdf

Pascal

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