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Erik doesn't take prisoners. Never did. To his credit, he was a prodigious and mighty worker for SGML and on the comp.text.sgml list. I'm rather glad he continues to blaze brightly. "Shine on you crazy diamond." OTW, what James said about attributes. We spent far too much time in X3D arguing trying to explain the impedance mismatches of VRML fields (where fields can have objects) to XML attributes. My reservation here is that explaining attributes only seems to be a problem when talking to a well-trained programmer. Humans don't seem to have problems with them at all. Look at the uptake of languages like HTML which make considerable use of them. So as a bridge between the programming world and the humans, markup works remarkably well and we should be cautious when the programming language experts start to fix it. The web is not meant to be a programmer's paradise, or at least, that isn't what made it useful to so many. len -----Original Message----- From: Seairth Jacobs [mailto:seairth@s...] Hmm... just looks like flamewar bait to me. Or maybe I just lost sight of the substance among all that noise.
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