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Re: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

• To: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>
• Subject: Re: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:15:39 -0400
• Cc: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>,Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>, xml-dev@l...
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Hunsberger, Peter wrote:

> Archive isn't an isolated capability.  Archive implies capability for
> usage.  Usage implies a mix of concerns. Does placing a inscribed stone
> tablet in a air tight iron box meet the requirements of archive if no
> one knows how to interpret the inscriptions on the stone tablet at any
> point in time?

Well, it worked great for the Rosetta Stone. Give people a bunch of 
labels, and they can often figure it out - even in languages they don't 
know, given enough time.

I think the topic at hand is inline markup. How could omitting the 
markup make it easier to understand the meaning and structure of the 
contents of a file?

Jonathan

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