• To: "'Jeff Lowery'" <jlowery@s...>, <michael.h.kay@n...>, "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Reality check needed ....
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:27:43 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <D60D8F448216D611A21A00508B62B5BC5CCA@e...>
• Organization: Propylon
• Reply-to: <bill.dehora@p...>

> From: Jeff Lowery 
> > ...
> > Anything
> > that sees the end of the three-character file extension 
> must be a step 
> > forward. ...
> > Michael Kay
> 
> You really want to remove the markup from the file names? 

Yep. File extensions are a nasty hack that don't actually solve
anything... Storing read-only metadata with read-write permissions is a
poor design. The file type is metadata about the file data, not the
file.

regards,
Bill de hÓra

..
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