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• Subject: Re: ConciseXML syntax
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:27:51 -0500
• In-reply-to: <004101c2be4b$762d4c60$6aa8a8c0@c...> ("Mike Plusch"'smessage of "Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:11:23 -0500")
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/ "Mike Plusch" <mplusch@c...> was heard to say:
| ConciseXML solves the verbosity and ambiguity of
| XML 1.0 while while remaining compatible with
| XML 1.0.  ConciseXML is designed for data as
| well as documents.

Yikes!

- From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-origin-goals

  ...
  10. Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance.

| ConciseXML has four key improvements to XML 1.0:

For some definition of "improvements". I'm old enough to remember SGML
short tag. I even remember short ref.

No, thank you.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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