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James Robertson wrote: > So I ask: what happened to XML being simple? > > Or to put it another way: if I have to support namespaces, XSL, > XML-Data (and more) in order to do anything, I'm going back to SGML > --- it's simpler! and David Megginson writes: >If James doesn't need Architectural forms, DSSSL, and HyTime in SGML, >then he shouldn't need namespaces, XSL, and XML-Data (which seems to >have been obsoleted by DCD anyway) in XML, unless someone decides to >start cramming them down all implementors' throats whether they will >or no. True - but does anyone else need that stuff either? Okay, that's going too far. But does everyone else need it? I don't think so. This train is moving too fast, and apparently has no brakes. I never thought I'd complain about standards moving too _quickly_, but XML seems to be breaking new ground in many different ways. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer / Cookies 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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