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Re: Unicode versus XLM language tagging

Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Markus Kuhn)  wrote on 11.01.02 in <E16P0Jq-00034z-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 5 years ago. Plaintext remains a far more powerful concept and XML is
> mostly a markup mechanism designed to overcome deficiencies in ASCII
> that appears rather clumsy in a pure Unicode plaintext world.

This characterization of XML is about as silly as it is possible to get.  
You might just as well claim that XML is designed to overcome world  
hunger. The one place where XML tries to overcome a specifically-ASCII  
limitation is where it *mandates Unicode support*.

(As for baroque syntax, at least it's not half as baroque as TeX ...)

MfG Kai
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