xml and s-expression

Hi,

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

One of the points raised by the author is the separation of code from
data as oppose
to treating them as the same thing in lisp. I don't know enough about
lisp to make an
educated evalutation on that claim. Thus I am posting that link here
to elicit reviews
from the lisp community.

Doug

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