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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Pontifications on the Perversity of Pedantry, Punditry, and Purple
 At 01:47 AM 4/25/00 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote: >I care first about consistency. I hate the fact that the W3C specs are >totally inconsistent between them. I'll admit, however, that I am more >[expletive deleted] off about the problems that the data model inconsistency gives me >at the programming level than I am about terminological inconsistency. >Solve the first problem and the second will follow. Solve the second >first and things get MORE confusing, not less. (you say element, I say >element but we mean different things) Without that kind of consistency, I think all we're left with is the syntax, taught by example or by EBNF. There is no 'data model' and we just have to deal with the consequences. The rest of the projects can go on, but every time they change either the terminology or the supposed data model, both of which are already seen differently by everyone, the costs of learning and using the new projects rise. The terminology and data model problems are interrelated, but I'm not convinced that 'solving' the data model would fix the terminology - or vice versa. It might be interesting to set up a public forum somehow that addresses these issues specifically, quarantining them to some extent while keeping the discussion available to anyone who wants to join in. >These problems are not going to bring XML to its knees. We will just >work around them as we have been. It's just annoying. It may not be so bad overall, but it might be smarter not to celebrate 'Pedantry, Punditry, and Purple Prose' either. Highlighting the 'annoying' stuff doesn't do anything to reduce XML's reputation as 'simple stuff made unnecessarily complex'. It's a PR problem and a real problem, all rolled up in one. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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