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Markup perspective not code (wasRE: Re: URIs, concrete)

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• Subject: Markup perspective not code (wasRE: Re: URIs, concrete)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:44:45 -0400
• In-reply-to: <014001c23982$7fb7d140$0200a8c0@skonnardomni>

Aaron writes:
> ....
> Simon:
> > Also, for future reference, monasticxml.org isn't particularly
> > interested in the "coder's perspective".  It's squarely and very
> > deliberately focused on markup works, not what's easiest for 
> > programmers from other perspectives.
> 
> But since you can have to implement your rule at the application level
> (as you admitted), doesn't that imply code?

At some level, everything in computing implies code.  There's a trend,
however, to separate what we want to do from however is most convenient
to coding it on the computer.  If we were all still writing assembler
code (or straight bytes), I don't think we'd really be able to discuss
these issues at all.

XML struck a nice balance between machines and humans.  I'm not inclined
to tilt any further toward the machines.  

To the extent that programmers have influenced the development of XML
since version 1.0, I think the impact has been severely negative.


-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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