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Don Park wrote: > Better tools and mediums will free us from that and allow > us to concentrate > on semantics and not the syntax. At that point, styles > will become more > important. That was all I was saying. I'm probably just touchy about this because it's the second time this week (in different places) that it's come up, but I think that most DTD designers feel that they are covering as many bases as they can, given the perhaps limited knowledge they may have about how the data will eventually be used. Syntax isn't really a big part of DTD creation; the majority of the effort currently goes into data analysis. I agree completely that better tools will make life easier for all of us, but that extends to those who don't really understand what they're doing as well as those who do. Those who rely on flash tools over underlying knowledge to solve their problems may still ultimately be disappointed. Lou Reynolds (former substantial shareholder in EBT (now Inso)) left us with a great line when he was in Australia a few years ago - "Another year and we'll all be drinking champagne out of fire hoses". While I continue to believe that this will be the case, it's hard to forget that it was uttered by one who is no longer in the game ... :-) -- Regards Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... _______________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) email: info@a... Level 10, 91 York Street www: http://www.allette.com.au Sydney 2000 NSW Australia phone: +61 2 9262 4777 fax: +61 2 9262 4774 _______________________________________________________________ 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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