Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Meta-Language [2]

• In Indo-European languages,

  • a word has at least one vowel

    • Usually...

  • no word has more than four consonants in succession

  • a sentence is a succession of words

  • a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period

• There is an (implicit) meta-grammar.

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