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----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...> To: <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 1:59 AM Subject: #2 Re: [SML] Whether to support Attribute or not? > If people are serious, they should first establish some use-cases > of where XML fails. This will also bring out the ramifications > of simplicification. My own use case for the failures of XML is XML-DEV! We spend a majority of our bandwidth discussing the most obscure and least useful bits of the spec (e.g., Does Production 14 forbid the string "]]>" in all CDATA elements, or just CDATA marked sections?). My experience with the DOM WG *and* my recent day jobs is similar -- the least useful parts of XML cause the most work for people supporting it. Both CDATA sections and external parsed entities caused *massive* amounts of work and contention for us in devising the DOM API. The recent xml.com article helped me clarify my thinking here: XML simply has "entia multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", and (as the owner of a long-haired dog and a long-haired cat) I've learned that a good application of Occam's Razor to remove the hairballs may be unpleasant, but it will make everyone happier in the long run. 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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