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Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)

• To: wperry@f... (W. E. Perry)
• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:11:51 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <3DA178CD.F9692F70@f...> from "W. E. Perry" at Oct 07, 2002 08:06:37 AM

W. E. Perry scripsit:

> I believe that I have been consistently a stickler for well-formedness in
> XML:  my first exchange with Peter Murray-Rust on this list emphasized the
> importance I attach to well-formedness, though in that case by contrast
> with those who believed that something more than simple well-formedness
> was required for XML to be truly useful. 

Right enough, but I've never understood *why* you thought it was so important.
Your general scheme of things would work equally well if there were no
syntactic agreements at all.

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Once put the rest of us dowan.		[on xml-dev]
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    If it only had metre		http://www.reutershealth.com
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