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Re: XML/RDF

• To: simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• Subject: Re: XML/RDF
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:06:22 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <r01050400-1021-92366E7AF05111D6870B0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]> from "Simon St.Laurent" at Nov 04, 2002 07:00:18 PM

Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> "Eschew mixed content" seemed the most ridiculous (and memorable) at the
> time, and I'd been having particular annoyances with general failures to
> appreciate mixed content at that point.  (Both W3C XML Schema and RELAX
> NG seem to treat it as a special case rather than as something quite
> normal, though RELAX NG is less extreme in that.)  

RNG treats text as a special case?  In what sense?

> Looking at the whole project in more detail and with examples, I find
> the whole thing repulsive, at least when taken as an approach to
> creating XML generally.  On the other hand, as a human-readable syntax
> for RDF, it's far better than anything else I've seen.

It's always been acceptable RDF.

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John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
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        --Gerald Holton

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