• To: <xml-dev@l...>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: flashback to 1997
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:20:56 +1000
• References: <4.2.0.58.20020805112252.013cc970@p...>

From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

> "It would be a blessing for all if those working on the XML standard would 
> simplify entity processing a bit more and fight like the devil against any 
> and all attempts to restuff the relatively Spartan design of XML with 
> padding and fluff from SGML's historical legacy.  From the perspective of 
> the Desperate Perl Hacker, XML would do well to simplify a bit more, and 
> cannot afford to add complications of relatively little value." [3]

Except, of course, the alternatives to entities of
  - XInclude
  - XLink
  - XBase
  - XML Schemas <redefine>, substitution groups, etc etc
do not necessarily represent a decrease in simplicity.

I see Liam is giving a paper on structured attributes.  More fiddling while Rome
burns?

Cheers
Rick

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