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At 11:41 27/02/2001 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >I agree with Dave Winer, however, that XML >violates the primary Internet law of being conservative in what you >produce but liberal in what you accept. I agree, but violates seems to imply that it's a bad thing. I think that law has shown it's limit with the explosion of HTML. When addressing an audience of people that large, generally unconcerned with compliance to whatever so long as they can put something out there (and perhaps make some money with it) the more liberal you are the more liberal people will expect you to be. It quickly becomes a vicious circle, with the vicious consequences we know. -- robin b. "Chance is irrelevant. We will succeed." -- 7o9
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