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Matthew Gertner wrote: > Really interesting stuff. When I first sat down and wrote the > introduction it was about 10 times longer and contained some of this > information, but it didn't seem especially relevant in the context of > pleaing for schemas, so I pared it down to the point where it is mostly > just a bunch of plausible-sounding lies. It's a Jones of mine. Plausible lies, the speed with which the World Wide Web distributes them and the tendancy of the press and the similarly ignoble readers of these lists to believe that nothing without a URL is worth checking, make the WWW do precisely what it was not designed to do: devolve knowledge. In about a hundred years, they will burn the W3C founders in effigy on the lawns at was once the hallowed halls of MIT, but will then be a museum for the slow and largely irrelevant who can't master surfing in virtual hypercube. They won't burn them for malice; they will do it for pleasure because burning their heritage has been equated with good memory management. While it is a lot like a monkey putting the plug back into the elephant, I am learning to accept being tied to the elephant's tail. I will never learn to like it. Hmm... this humor thing might be worth learning... nah. > Ouch. Whatever happened to poetic license? I thought "a hobbled subset > of SGML" sounded snappier than "an SGML application specifying a > vocabulary for the transfer and display of hypertext documents". The > latter would also have detracted from the humorous value of the > paragraph, of which there is hopefully at least some. See above. The problem is, they quote you and when they do that often enough, the universe gets a little colder. > > Tell 'em, "ahh, XML Works. We just don't agree on how." > > Seems like a healthy state of affairs. If we keep churning the idea > bucket the One True Way will eventually become obvious. No one true way; just a bag of tools and maps with lots of roads to the same place. Look at DTDs as view dimensions and aggregate them using OLAP tools. Then decide where you want to go. That's one approach. A DTD is the backside of a stored query. :-) len 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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