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political blather (WAS Re: Advice: inline node editing, or not?)

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• Subject: political blather (WAS Re: Advice: inline node editing, or not?)
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:20:17 -0700
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Jay Vaughan wrote:

> What is it about XML people and their attitudes, anyway ... its just
> a freakin' technology, people, not a doctrine.

I agree with the overall sentiment, but here you are 
quite mistaken.

Remember: XML began life as "SGML for the Web", and 
SGML is as much a philosophy as it is a technology [*].

Ride it out; this thread will die down in a week or so.


--jenglish@f...

  (desperately resisting the urge to respond to Len's last article)

[*] If you're curious about the philosophy of SGML, just
    ask any old-time SGMLer [**].  There are still a dozen 
    or so of us left on this list, so you should get at least
    two dozen answers.

[**] ... or a new-time SGMLer [***]

[***] e.g., Simon St. Laurent

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  • Re: Advice: inline node editing, or not?
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  • Re: Advice: inline node editing, or not?
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