• To: clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)")
• Subject: Re: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented n
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:26:38 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: wperry@f... ('W. E. Perry'), xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B85F@HQ5> from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" at Aug 22, 2002 08:29:58 AM

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:

> The claims that the web have altered the fundamentals 
> of markup are without basis, hubristic, and somewhat 
> at the root of the restless innovation that seems to 
> churn applications but make no real progress.

There has been real progress.  URLs are real progress, even if theoretically
messy: they provide an actual, functioning, de facto document identifier
infrastructure.  RELAX NG is progress by any measure.  W3C XML Schema
includes progressive features.  By separation of concerns, XSLT and XSL:FO
represent progress over DS+L.  Unicode is real progress.

-- 
De plichten van een docent zijn divers,         John Cowan
die van het gehoor ook.                         jcowan@r...
      --Edsger Dijkstra                         http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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