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• Subject: Re: some days I'm wrong
• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:07:24 -0400
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At 2003-09-22 15:25 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
>DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
>
>>However, if I had to teach a
>>class in RELAX NG to people who already knew XML and DTDs, I would use RNG,
>>because I wouldn't have the double problem have teaching them concepts and
>>syntax. Once I introduced them to RNC, there'd be a lot of tranging back and
>>forth between the two as they learned RNC.
>
>Interesting.  My intuition would be precisely the opposite - that the RNC 
>is enough simpler and more expressive that that's where I'd start 
>teaching.  But them I'm not a regular teacher -Tim

I teach it from RNC myself ... when being rigourous, one can so easily see 
the shape of their model from indentation and spacing.

............... Ken


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