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On 12/05/2022 12:10, Norman Gray wrote: I've had a similar feeling over the years, realising that what a spec really described was a level of meta-ness I hadn't known even existed.On 12 May 2022, at 11:53, Roger L Costello wrote:"Yes, working with the XSD specification is a nightmare; it's the toughest spec I've ever had to work with other than Algol 68, and unlike Algol 68, some of the apparent formality turns out to be spurious; when it gets to tricky things that ought to be formal, like whether two types are identical, the spec bails out."I remember reading the HyTime spec, and remember feeling a modest sense of achievement when I managed to work out what it was talking about, and realised that what it was talking about was not what it said it was talking about, and that the former was significantly more interesting than the latter. Peter
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