Dan Connolly wrote:


> Hmm... I think I still disagree, but now we seem to have enough
> shared context to get back to the point:
>
> Does determining whether some particular object is an XML document
> depend on experiment? Surely not, right?

I think so; we have to look at it to see if its
character sequence matches the document production, etc.

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