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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > Right now, it looks like we're on the way to something perhaps even more > complex than SGML. That seems like we've taken a rather severe wrong turn. I don't know why it should be so surpising - XML took a complex set of problems, broke the components into smaller pieces, picked off the easy ones to convince everyone that it was the way to go. Now that that has been completed, we're left with trying to resolve the original but deferred complexity as well as the new complexity between the smaller components. Although picking the low hanging fruit provided a good platform to market from, you would hardly use it as a model for software development (or many other things that spring to mind). The complexity was inevitable, but in my opinion, that doesn't doom the whole process yet. Well I'll be. Contrary to some reports, it now appears that SGML wasn't exponentially more complex than it should have been. Go figure! -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein
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