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Re: Typing and paranoia

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• Subject: Re: Typing and paranoia
• From: "Wilbert Jackson" <wjackson@a...>
• Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:16:31 -0800
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Same BS for weeks now, give it a rest!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Berjon" <robin.berjon@e...>
To: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>
Cc: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Re:  Typing and paranoia


> Mike Champion wrote:
> > Y'all want to stuff him back in the bottle, fine ... but it's not me
that you
> > have to convince.
>
> Me neither, but it's too late. Pandora's box lays in shards on the floor.
>
> > My strong preference would be for the "one standard human-readable
syntax"
> > position if I had my druthers.  I totally agree (e.g. with an article by
Sean
> > McGrath) that in the vast majority of XML *applications* the parsing
overhead
> > / bloat issue is a red herring.
>
> And indeed it is. The problem is that the vast majority of a hugely vast
field
> still leaves a vast minority. Vast enough to cause interop trouble.
>
> --
> Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
> Research Engineer, Expway
> 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE  8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
>
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