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RE: Relax NG Projects

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: RE: Relax NG Projects
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:50:53 -0500
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

Ok by me.  Fewer competitors in my world.  I like it. ;-)

We could do what Erik Naggum wanted and that 
would make several posters happy:  return 
to the one true information pure system:  LISP. 
Kill the syntax, namespace, RDF and schema 
bogeyman with one fast cleave.  Now that's 80/20 
at work.

Of course all those XML books become door stops, 
all our luminaries become nobodies, and most of 
our existing code becomes bit-bucket fodder.

Alternatives for appropriate applications.  If 
he teaches DTD first, then RNG, then Schematron, then XSD, 
that would seem like a nicely graded learning curve.

len the lemma  

<ot>Because the world believes Americans don't 
care about world events outside the US, in honor of the 
German victory today at the World Cup, we are 
going out tonight to hold soccer riots and 
trash german restaurants; but only after we 
eat dinner there.  Americans don't riot on 
empty stomachs.  Congratulations to the 
German Soccer Team (boo to the official 
who didn't see the palmed goal).</ot>


From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]

Right.  And they should also be taught the value of all-out business 
battles, how to follow crowds unthinkingly, and the value of using whatever 
happens to be handed to them at the time.

I applaud David for teaching students a schema form which might encourage 
them to focus on the basics of information structure development before 
throwing them into an approach which offers a deluge of features manageable 
primarily through tools which separate them from the information.

Teaching DOM without teaching SAX seems infinitely more appropriate by 
contrast.

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