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RE: Markup perspective not code (wasRE: Re: URIs, co

• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: RE: Markup perspective not code (wasRE: Re: URIs, concrete)
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:12:06 -0600
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• In-reply-to: <3D498F51.7080701@t...>

> Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> 
> > To the extent that programmers have influenced the development of
XML
> > since version 1.0, I think the impact has been severely negative.
>
Tim Bray responded:
>
> Too simple I think.  Particularly given that almost all of the
> advantages of XML over SGML were based on the principle of "leave out
> everything except what programmers actually understand and use." -Tim

I agree with Tim here and have a hard time seeing how XML is a useful
*technology* to anyone but "programmers". Users of "markup" (who are not
devs) are simply using pre-defined vocabularies defined by programmers.

-aaron
http://staff.develop.com/aarons

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