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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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