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Re: is that a fork in the road?

• From: Paul T <paul@p...>
• To: James Robertson <jamesr@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:15:57 -0800

----- Original Message ----- 
From: James Robertson <jamesr@s...>

> >  If you subscribe to the notion that you have to do something all over again
> >three times to really get it  right, are we on the 3rd attempt now?  (I'm
> >thinking GML, SGM, XML)
> 
> And this unholy mess is what you
> call getting it right? ;-)

For the markup language, tags, attributes and mixed 
content are just fine, I think.

The rest is mostly crap, I think. Or, if you don't like the word 
"crap" it could be :

"the rest is not a part of everybody's long term vision for XML". 

I've grabbed this cool template from :

"Yes, I know you could use entities, but entities aren't 
part of everybody's long term vision for XML"

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-03/msg00165.html
 
Rgds.Paul.

• References:
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  • Re: is that a fork in the road?
    • From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
  • Re: is that a fork in the road?
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