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Len, > > XML 1.0 is. This is the key point. Here is XML -- XML is itself simple. It _enables_ you to be simple, but if you want to be complicated, go ahead. Perhaps we should stop talking about the family of specs surrounding XML as if they _are_ XML itself. That is to say, defining "XML in totality" is akin to defining binary logic (simple) and defining the latest multiGHz Pentium IV with a gazillion gates _as_ part of "binary logic in totality". > The family of specs around it > are not. You can teach XML 1.0 in about > half a day. The rest can take three semesters > and then a year of practice. Once out of the > simple instance, XML specs specify a system. > Taken in totality, XML is now much harder > then SGML and throwing the combined specs > onto a floor would kill the first three > rows of the audience. > -Jonathan
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