Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files'

[David Allouche]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:54 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:38:16PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:30:20 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > > [XML inexact patching]
> > > 
> > > In fact, I do think it's possible. But to be really useful [...]
> 
> > For XML the equivalence is well defined. Two XML documents are
> > equivalent if and only if they parse to the same tree.
[...]
> Ugh. I don't know whether I've brought across my point.

More specifically, XML is so semantically poor as to be almost
meaningless.

For example, the semantics of element ordering and whitespace (to a
slightly lesser extent) are application-defined.

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