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At 09:33 24/04/98 -0400, Siping Liu wrote: >Hi there, > >I posted this question yestoday and yet to get any reply. Here it goes again. >If >you know the answer please help. Hi there, Reposting questions to XML-DEV isn't going to help get answers quickly, I am afraid, and will annoy some people who might otherwise have replied. [Despite the rapidity of Web-based processes, a day isn't a very long time to wait.] All postings to this list are made voluntarily. People do this because they think they can help. There are lots of reasons why they may not reply to your question, such as: - they don't know the answer (that's why I haven't replied, and I suspect most others haven't). - they are not sure how to answer it (this may also be a factor) - their boss doesn't approve of them spending time on the Internet. - their partner/kids don't approve either. - they haven't had any sleep for the last 2 days... etc. If it helps you, people often don't reply to my questions either. This is probably because the Qs are too simple; been suggested/asked before; the Qs are too profound for the XML experts; I don't make them simple to understand; they think I'm crazy, etc. and they have bosses/kids/partners/cash_flow_crises, etc. You have to learn to live with it. Try again in 2 months? The percentage of postings on XML-DEV which receive useful replies is very high and we are all very grateful to everyone who takes time to reply. It often costs them time/social_life, etc. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg 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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