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Robert La Quey wrote: > >Judging from some of the posts, maybe their authors think that the XML WG > >is like Copernicus and that Don, with SML, is more like Kepler??? > > Yes, nice point, so we might say: > > SGML:XML:SML <=> Ptolemy:Copernicus:Kepler Except Ptolemy lived in the 2nd century, Copernicus the 16th, and Kepler the 17th. SGML was formalized in 1986; XML a year and a half ago. I know we're living in Internet Time, but isn't this "simplification" movement throwing out the XML Baby with the bath water a tad premature? No doubt XML and her siblings *will* be simplified some day. Maybe they'll even drop the most confusing of them -- Namespaces -- and replace them with (gasp!) attributes. ... /Jelks 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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