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  • Tags have no predefined meaning
  • Unlike HTML, XML by itself conveys only content and structure, not presentation, behavior, or meaning
  • The meaning of XML languages must be specified outside of XML itself
    • Operational semantics: programs, servlets, applets, scripts, stylesheets...
    • Definitional semantics: prose, namespaces, ontologies, UML diagrams...
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