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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: coming clean with the SGML crowd (was re: namespaces)
 Richard L. Goerwitz III wrote: > > Note that in this scheme, the SGML compatibility crowd pays more than the > rest of us. The more namespaces are actually used (and the more they make > the process of writing DTDs that much less direct and useful), the more > these silly kludges become necessary, and the more XML loses its connec- > tion with SGML. That is not true. SGML is not a static thing. It can change. The XML community has "volunteered" to test out namespaces. If they prove to be useful, I expect SGML would adopt them. If they are just useless syntactic sugar (as opposed to useful syntactic sugar), that will become evident in the next few months or years and they will fall into disuse. The same goes for schemas: if the XML world comes up with a truly better way to do DTDs, then SGML can incorporate it. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco The past is inaccurate. Whoever lives long enough knows how much what he had seen with his own eyes becomes overgrown with rumor, legend a magnifying or belittling hearsay. "It was not like that at all!" -- he would like to exclaim, but will not, for they would have seen only his moving lips without hearing his voice. - Czeslaw Milosz (translated) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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