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Paul Prescod wrote: > > Marcus Carr wrote: > > > > XML is a colonialist's manifesto. Although colonialism has never been ranked as > > any sort of a sucess in hindsight, a colonialist might just be a frontrunner of > > the inevitable tide. It might not be an ideal scenario, but it's not going away... > > Well, now we're getting really off track, but I think that XML does more > than any comparable Web specification to allow linguistic minorities to > maintain their language in the face of the other, inevitable changes like > mobility and cheap communication. XML is not the frontrunner of cultural > colonialism -- it is a moderating factor (albeit a small one). Indeed, and since I'm the one who got this started let me plead with everyone to please not get us started on the theory and practice of colonialism, fascinating as that may be. I was just wisecracking a little bit. Maybe I should end my emoticon boycott. Naaah. -- xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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