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• Subject: Re: Programming for Markup vs. Markup for Programming
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:45:29 -0400
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At 12:43 PM 8/2/2002 -0400, Mike Champion wrote:
>I wouldn't say that bums like you should be thrown out, but perhaps
>you would be happier breathing new life into the SGML world than
>in laying down in front of the PSVI/WXS/XQuery logging trucks that are
>"despoiling" the XML world.

Nope.  The SGML perspective comes with an incredible truckload of options 
requiring prior agreement for interop, the very things I've been trying to 
stamp out in XML.

I'm happy to be ecumenical about "markup", but I don't think the things the 
programmers are introducing begin to qualify as good markup.

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue

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