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Tim Bray wrote: > If the answer was easy, it would be in the XML spec. It turns out to > be very nearly impossible to write a set of rules that are useful > across different application spaces and are still comprehensible to > human beings. SGML fell apart completely in this area, and the people > who wrote that were smart. I think "fell apart completely" is a bit strong, but I do agree that whitespace handling occasionally resulted in problems. In SGML we got used to overcoming them, as I'm sure we will in XML. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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