Item 13. Remember Mixed Content
XML was designed for narrative documents meant to be read by humans: books, novels, plays, poems, technical manuals, and most especially web pages. Its use for record-oriented data was a happy accident. Narrative documents have a number of characteristics that are not often true of more record-like data. The most significant is mixed content. For example, consider this simple paragraph taken from the second edition of the XML specification.
<p diff="add">This second edition is <emph>not</emph> a new version of XML (first published 10 February 1998); it merely incorporates the changes dictated by the first-edition errata (available at <loc href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata"> http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata</loc>) ...
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